Uganda Policy Brief Inside

The Contribution of Livestock to the Ugandan Economy

This briefing paper assesses the contribution of livestock to
Uganda's national economy. Conventional GDP accounting
may ignore some of the benefits that people derive from livestock in subsistence-oriented economies, when households directly provision themselves, when economic exchanges are not calculated in monetary terms or when these exchanges go unrecorded. The present study assigns monetary values to the non-marketed goods and services
provided by livestock, and estimates the contribution of livestock to the wider national economy as exports, as inputs into manufacturing industries, and as a component of household consumption.