Barriers to livestock health market: Distribution of products

Like in other sectors, businesses in animal health also have as their objective efficient delivery of their products, often for a profit to ensure sustainability. While achievable, it is a however a challenge or a barrier in markets comprised predominantly of small-scale livestock producers (SSPs).

Barriers in the livestock health market: Service provision

Animal health services and products are still out of reach for millions of Small-Scale Producers (SSPs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA). Even though SSPs account for a large number of animal keepers in SSA and SA, they are scattered, concentrated in rural areas and operate their production on low input, low output system. This makes animal health service provision challenging.

Barriers to livestock health market: Intelligence

The barriers to trade in AHI have led to LMICs markets being insufficiently attractive to sustain the case for investment in the development of targeted products and markets by multinational companies. Some of the barriers to trade in LMICs include incomplete market information.

Using bespoke technologies could address market barriers in the small-scale livestock sector

Despite small-scale livestock producers’ key role in the agricultural industry, existing market barriers and constraints hinder their opportunities to access high-quality animal health products and services.

Celebrating 2 years of achievements with PREVENT

PREVENT is an initiative to establish an innovative and pragmatic veterinary health platform in Africa through hatchery vaccination. PREVENT comprises various workstreams that are connecting the key pieces to achieve this endgame.

The relation between gender inclusion and food security 

Gender blindness in agriculture and in the livestock sector in particular, continues to limit production in many rural areas, and evidence shows that the more gender inequality there is in […]

Working towards achieving gender inclusion in the livestock sector 

Women around the world still face many challenges and disadvantages based on their sex/gender identity, and the agriculture and livestock sectors are no exception.  Women continue to face challenges like […]

What could gender inclusion in livestock health look like?  

Inclusion, in its very definition, means to be open to everyone and not limited to certain people. In low-and-middle income countries, the focus for inclusion and equity has largely been […]

GALVmed provides updates on small ruminants’ vaccine development

In a Stakeholder Seminar series led by FAO, held in January, GALVmed presented its work on small ruminant vaccines with a focus on Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR).

Optimising procedure management for marketing authorisation of veterinary medicines in Eastern Africa

Timely and effective marketing authorisation of veterinary medicines requires a combination of rigorous scientific evaluation and efficient management of procedures.  In line with GALVmed’s role in implementing the AgResults Foot […]