EAC Livestock Policy

Abstract

The EAC secretariat has developed this livestock policy to foster focused and coherent set of strategic policy decisions and actions relevant to propelling and transforming EAC Partner States Livestock industry beyond the outcomes attained with the past and current livestock subsector policy instruments. The goal of EAC livestock policy is to attain an annual growth rate of at least 5.0% with significant livestock contribution to the agricultural GDP surpassing 50% and to contribute to the reduction of poverty, hunger, unemployment and degradation of natural resources.