Resilience Enhancing Technologies and Practices along the Livestock Value chain in the IGAD Karamoja Cluster

BACKGROUND

Livestock is one of the major renewable resource endowments of the IGAD
Member States (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda). The region has one of the highest ruminant livestock concentrations in Africa and in the world. Its percent share from Africa is about 44.5% of the cattle, 38.6% of small ruminants and 71.4% of the camel population . The predominant livestock in Karamoja cluster in the order of preference in the livestock value chain are cattle, sheep, goats and camels.