Overall Objectives

• Contribute to reducing poverty and enhancing food security.
• Sustainable preservation of the biodiversity of endemic ruminant livestock.
• Improve the productivity of endemic ruminant livestock (meat, milk and income) in a physical environment and institutional environment.
• Reduce the conversion of natural habitat areas and control endemic livestock in a sustainable way crosses with exotic cattle.

Specific Objectives

The main achievements under are distributed around two components: (1) improvement of livestock production systems endemic and (2) conservation of the natural habitat of endemic cattle. They focus on a better understanding of trypanotolerant species and its farming, processing and marketing of products in a sustainable ecosystem management.

It is expected that the project will contribute to biodiversity, food security and poverty alleviation between now and 2013 through the the following production increases:

• 38% of meat

• 46% of milk

• 100 and 60% of income for mixed breeding and specialized small ruminants breeding systems.

In addition, cross-breeding between exotic and endemic livestock and conversion of the surface area of natural habitats of endemic ruminant livestock will be reduced by 20%.  The project will also train 16,000 farmers, including 8,000 women in different domains (animal feeding, reproduction management and improvement of small ruminants habitat)