September 10, 2007

ACDI/VOCA Organizes Stakeholder Conference on Egyptian Livestock Value Chain

ACDI/VOCA’s Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes (AERI) Dairy and Livestock project in Egypt organized, with support from USAID, a national conference called “The Livestock Value Chain in Upper Egypt: Challenges and Opportunities” September 3-5.

The conference brought together livestock producers and other industry stakeholders to create networks and enable knowledge sharing to strengthen the livestock value chain in Upper Egypt. The three-day event featured expert presenters and panelists who focused on the challenges facing the livestock sector as well as current market opportunities.

“We were very pleased to be organizing this conference, with support from USAID, to further the learning and collaborative development amongst livestock producers and other industry stakeholders initiated under the AERI Dairy and Livestock project four years ago,” ACDI/VOCA-Egypt Representative and AERI-Livestock Chief of Party Douglas Anderson said.

Since 2004 ACDI/VOCA has implemented the $8.3 million, four-year AERI Dairy and Livestock project to increase the competitiveness of the livestock sector. ACDI/VOCA has a rich history of development work in Egypt dating back to 1980. ACDI/VOCA’s projects have stimulated long-term growth and opened many opportunities in Upper and Lower Egypt by improving agricultural technologies and market information and increasing microenterprise activity and rural access to credit. To learn more about ACDI/VOCA’s current and past projects in Egypt, please click here [http://www.acdivoca.org/site/ID/ourwork_egypt]

Click here to read the conference report (PDF, 6.9 MB).