Presented by Jimmy Smith at the Global Animal Health Conference on Developing Global Animal Health Products to Support Food Security and Sustainability, Arlington, Virginia, 17−18 October 2013
Global health and sustainable food security: Why the livestock sectors of developing countries matter
1. Global health and sustainable food security
Why the livestock sectors of developing countries matter
Global Animal Health Conference
Developing global animal health products to support food security and sustainability
Arlington, Virginia, 17-18 October 2013
Jimmy Smith, Director General, ILRI
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3. Key messages
1
2
GLOBAL
FOOD SECURITY
Smallholder livestock
systems contribute now
and in the future
GLOBAL
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Demand for livestock in
developing countries
is rising fast
3
4
GLOBAL
ANIMAL HEALTH
Global food security
depends on
better animal health
GLOBAL
ANIMAL HEALTH MARKETS
Animal health markets
are big markets
in developing countries
5. Food security and sustainability
How will the world feed itself sustainably
by the time the population stabilizes about 2050?
• 60% more food than is produced now will be needed
• 75% of this must come from productivity − not land −
increases
• The higher production must be achieved while reducing
poverty and addressing environmental, social and health
concerns
• This greater production will have to be achieved in the
face of temperatures 2−4 degrees warmer than today’s
6. Nutritional divides among 7 billion people today
hungry people
vulnerable to food
insecurity
inadequate diets
overconsumers
balanced diets
Malnutrition is costly.
FAO estimates the costs of malnutrition
to be as high as US$3.5 trillion a year
7. Gains in meat consumption in developing countries
outpace that of developed countries
300
Million metric tonnes
250
200
150
developing
developed
100
50
0
1980
1990
2002
2015
2030
FAO 2006
8. Global food production: From where?
Developing-country
mixed crop-livestock
systems, most of them
smallholders, supply
the large proportion
of livestock products
Herrero et al. 2009
9. Smallholder livestock keepers are competitive
East African dairy
• 1 million Kenyan smallholders keep Africa’s largest dairy herd
• Ugandans are the world’s lowest-cost milk producers
• Small- and large-scale Kenyan poultry and dairy producers
have same levels of efficiency and profits
Vietnam pig industry
• 95% of production is by producers with less than 100 animals
• Pig producers with 1-2 sows have lower unit costs
than those with more than 4 sows
• Industrial pig production could grow to meet
no more than 12% of national supply in the next 10 years
• Smallholders will continue to provide most of the pork
IFCN, Omiti et al. 2004, ILRI 2012
11. 4 out of 5 of the highest value
global commodities are livestock
FAOSTAT 2013
12. Percentage increase in demand
for livestock products
120
2000 to 2040
100
80
Meat
Milk
Eggs
60
40
20
0
Developing Countries
Developed Countries
Far higher growth in demand will occur in developing countries
IFPRI-ILRI IMPACT model results
13. Global trade of livestock products
(million tonnes, milk excluded)
14
12
10
8
1967
2007
6
4
2
0
pig meat
beef
eggs
poultry
meat
sheep and
goat meat
Adapted from FAO 2012
14. Global trade of livestock products
(million tonnes, milk included)
100
90
80
70
60
50
1967
2007
40
30
20
10
0
pig meat
beef
eggs
milk
poultry sheep
meat and goat
meat
Adapted from FAO 2012
16. Smallholders can commercialize
Smallholders can continue to most provide livestock
products in most developing countries only if
the following animal health problems are addressed:
• Poor market access
− Reduce food safety problems that reduce
market participation by smallholders
• Low productivity
− Reduce endemic animal diseases that lower productivity
• Zoonotic diseases
− Lower zoonotic disease transmissions that threaten
small-scale livestock producers in poor countries
as well as human health in all countries
17. Food safety in developing countries
• Most milk, meat and eggs
are sold in informal markets
• We need to manage the risks
(of illness) while retaining the
benefits (to
livelihoods, food/nutrition
security) of informally sold
livestock foods
• Perceptions can be misleading:
e.g., handling cattle or drinking
milk is as risky as eating
vegetables
Percent of milk marketed
in informal markets
Country
Percent
Kenya
86
Tanzania
95
Uganda
90
Rwanda
90
Ethiopia
95
Malawi
95
Zambia
90
18. Food safety in developing countries
• Gender issues are important issues in food safety
• Health advice is most useful when it is context-specific,
based on evidence, and developed in and with local communities
• Social incentives
(‘good parents do x . . .’)
and risk- rather than
rule-based approaches
work best
• Relatively simple and cheap
interventions can lead to
substantial improvements
in food safety
19. Innovations, incentives and institutions
for managing food-borne diseases
• Develop and test technologies
• Train, brand and certify informal actors
• Development local capacity
Novel lateral flow assays for cysticercosis
Women butchers sell safer meat than men
20. Big productivity gaps, largely due to poor animal
health, persist between rich and poor countries
Some developing country regions have gaps of up to 430% in milk
Steinfeld et al. 2006
21. Annual losses from selected diseases –
Africa and South Asia
8
7
Billion $ lost yearly
6
Africa
South Asia
5
4
South Asia
3
Africa
2
1
0
Estimates from
BMGF
22. Animal disease is a key constraint in Africa
•
Animal disease is a key constraint:
Remove it and animal productivity increases greatly
•
As livestock systems intensify in developing countries,
diseases may increase
Annual mortality of African livestock
(About half due to preventable or curable diseases)
Young
Adult
Cattle
22%
6%
Shoat
28%
11%
Poultry
70%
30%
Otte &
Chilonda, IAEA
23. A deadly dozen zoonotic diseases each year
kill 2.2 million people and sicken 2.4 billion
Annual deaths from all zoonoses
Annual deaths from single-agent zoonoses
140000
120000
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Almost all losses are in developing countries
24. Greatest burden of zoonoses falls on
one billion poor livestock keepers
Map by ILRI, from original in a report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012
25. Emerging zoonotic disease events, 1940−2012
Map by IOZ, published in an ILRI report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012
26. Costs of emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks
(US$ billion)
Period
Cost
(conservative estimates)
1998−2009
38.7
2002−2004
41.5
1998−2009
80.2
6 outbreaks excluding SARS
− Nipah virus (Malaysia)
− West Nile fever (USA)
− HPAI (Asia, Europe)
− BSE (US)
− Rift Valley fever (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia)
− BSE (UK) costs 1997−09 only
SARS
Total over 12 years
Giving an annual average of US$6.7 billion
World Bank 2012
29. Animal health markets in developing countries:
Significant and growing
• Global animal health = multi-billion-dollar industry
• Global human health market = $1,000 billion
• Global animal health market
(livestock + pet + other) = $20 billion
• Global livestock health market = $13 billion
• Africa and South Asia = $0.5 billion
• Market shares = drugs 63%, vaccines 25%, feeds 15%
• Africa = +15.7% year-on-year growth (2nd after Latin America)
30. Animal health markets:
Where is the demand?
15 countries make up more than 85%
of the global animal health market:
•
Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK
•
Asia: Japan, China, India, Korea
•
Americas: Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico
•
Oceania: Australia
Developing and emerging countries
are increasingly important
31. Animal health markets:
India
• 500 million livestock,
1 billion poultry
• Livestock sector is 2nd-largest
contributor to GDP (6%)
• World’s biggest
dairy producer
• Animal health market
annual growth over 8%
• Worth $370 million in 2008:
52% cattle, 38% poultry
32. Animal health markets:
Opportunities in developing countries
• Appropriate packaging/marketing
(e.g., drugs in smaller packages)
• Delivery systems for small farms
• Surveillance for drug resistance
• ‘One Health’ approaches and
‘Rational Drug Use’ for both
people and animals
• ‘Game-changing products’:
e.g., vaccines for Newcastle
disease and East Coast fever
• Quality assurance for
veterinary medicines
33. Key messages
1
2
GLOBAL
FOOD SECURITY
Smallholder livestock
systems contribute now
and in the future
GLOBAL
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Demand for livestock in
developing countries
is rising fast
3
4
GLOBAL
ANIMAL HEALTH
Global food security
depends on
better animal health
GLOBAL
ANIMAL HEALTH MARKETS
Animal health markets
are big markets
in developing countries
34. Last words
The risks of ignoring pressing animal health
issues in the developing world are huge:
− Lost livelihoods and food in developing countries
− Reduced global food security
− Impaired human health in all countries
The opportunities for improving animal health
in developing countries are just as big:
− A significant and rapidly growing market
achieved with appropriate approaches
35. Better lives through livestock
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Notas do Editor
Following key messages, end with a ‘summing up’ statement FOOD SECURITYAnimal health in the developing world is key to global and sustainablefood securityThe wealth of the world’s poor is largely locked up in their farm animal stockGROWING MARKETSThe livestock sectors of developing countries are evolving rapidly and present a huge and ever-growing marketThe risks of ignoring livestock health in the developing world --- for all of us --- could be hugeDISEASE AND FARMSWe should tackle diseases where they begin --- many begin on the farmMore than half of all human diseases are transmitted to people from farm and other animalsDOUBLE BOTTOM LINEWork in animal health helps us maintain the ‘engine’ of food production --- the world’s smallholder farmers and herders ---while also helping us prevent a global health disaster --- in the form of epidemics of infectious diseases transmitted from animals, such as TB, AIDS, SARS and bird flu.BOTTOM LINEWe cannot afford to ignore pressing animal health issues in poor countries.Such neglect threatens not only food security in those countries (through lost livelihoods and foods) but also human health and life in all countries (through livestock-associated human diseases).
Animal-source foods are a big part of meeting global nutritional as well as food needs and demands.Of the world’s 7 billion people, only a small percentage are fed and nourished.It is a shocking indictment of the global food system that, in the 21st century, most of the world’s population have sub-optimal diets:1 billion going to bed hungry2 billion are vulnerable to food insecurity1 billion have diets that do not meet all their nutritional requirements1 billion suffer the effects of over-consumption
These figures are from FAO’s Livestock’s long shadow.
Trade matters − but local markets matter moreValue of 2011 meat trade was more than $100 billion (10% of agricultural trade)But traded meat accounts for only 10% of total meat consumed
This needs to change to something about smallholder livestock producers important role in future food security – and thus:Their engagement in markets needs to be facilitatedProductivity needs to increaseChallenges of animal and human health interaction need to be addressedWhy animal health in smallholder systems matters so much
s/h participation in marketsRisk rather than regulatory
s/h participation in marketsRisk rather than regulatory
Add note: No numbers for PPR here but PPR is widespread in South Asia
ECF and Newcastle Disease are examples where the disease is the biggest constraint in the system. Several studies have shown that where these are controlled populations and/or offtake can double.The table summarises a number of studies in a systematic review of mortality in African traditional systems, by age group
Of 56 important diseases identified in the study, just 12 were responsible for 97% of human mortality.The second table shows those diseases caused by single agents(e.g. excluding food borne diseases which are caused by multiple agents).
Last year ILRI conducted a systematic review of zoonoses, livestock-keeping and poverty.This found that the heaviest burden of zoonoses falls on poor people in close contact with animalsAn ILRI study shows that zoonotic diseases are major obstacles in pathways out of poverty for one billion poor livestock keepers. The diseases mapped cause 2.3 billion human illness and 1.7 million human deaths a year. In poor countries, the diseases also infect more than one in seven livestock every year.Map by ILRI, from original published in an ILRI report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012.
In the same study, we also mapped emerging zoonotic events between 1940 and 2012.Those of the last decade are shown as blue dots, while earlier events are colouredred.In recent years, more events have been reported from the rapidly intensifying regions of S America and SE AsiaWest USA & west Europe hotspotsLast decade: S America & SE Asia Most emerging human diseases com from animals. This map locates events over the past 72 years, with recent events (identified by an ILRI-led study in 2012) in blue. Like earlier analyses, the study shows western Wurope and western USA are hotspots; recent events, however, show an increasingly higher representation of developing countries.Potential hotspots are in US, western Europe, Brazil and Southeast AsiaMap by IOZ, published in an ILRI report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012.
Period Disease (Country) Start Estimate 1986-2009 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (UK) 1986 15,500,000,000 6.1 billion in 1997-2009 1994 Plague (India) 1994 2,000,000,000 Sept. 1998-April 1999 Nipah virus (Malaysia) 1998 671,000,000 January 1999-Dec. 2008 West Nile fever (USA) 1999 400,000,000 Nov. 2002-July 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (CD, China, ROW)2002 41,500,000,000 January 2004-January 2009Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Asia) 2004 20,000,000,000 2003-2007 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (USA) 2004 11,000,000,000 Oct. 2005-Jan. 2009 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Europe) 2005 500,000,000 Nov. 2005-January 2009 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Africa) 2005 Nov. 2006-May 2007 Rift Valley Fever (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia) 2006 30,000,000 per year without SARS 48,329,000,000 2,301,380,952 SARS 41,500,000,000 1,976,190,476 Total in 1986-2006 89,829,000,000 4,277,571,429 Total in 1998-2009 only 80,201,000,0006,683,416,667 without SARS 38,701,000,000 3,225,083,333 SARS 41,500,000,000 3,458,333,333 Annual avg (12 yrs) for 7 outbreaks is $3.2 bIf SARS is once in 12-yrs event, the annual cost is $3.5 bMoreover, there are other zoonotic diseases that are not included in this calculation. For instance HIV/AIDs which imposes heavy human, social and economic costs. At present, programs to control the disease are spending on the order of $10 billion per year – if we had included this, the total costs would be even more staggering.Costs of a flu pandemic would range from about 5x the impact of these 8 outbreaks in a mild flu scenario (455 billion) to about 40 x in a severe flu scenario ($3.1 trillion). Most of these costs would be indirect.
Globalization of transboundary diseasesThe world is more inter-connectedLocal problems are becoming global challengesFood safety, zoonoses, endemic diseases in developing countries increasingly becoming challenges in developed countriesExample:No vaccine for ASF, disease affects trade and market access. Wiped out half pig population in Madagascar in the late 1990’s.