Presented by Ben Lukuyu, Emily Ouma, Jane Poole, Alice Njehu, Michel Dione, Karen Marshall, Christoph Weber, Birthe Paul, Isabelle, Baltenweck, Iddo Dror, Chris Jones, Michael Peters and Ulf Magnusson at the 3rd Meeting of the Independent Steering Committee, held online 23rd October 2019

1. Improving incomes of pig value chain actors
through marketing arrangements and sustainable
integrated technology packages (2019-2021)
Ben Lukuyu, Emily Ouma, Jane Poole, Alice Njehu, Michel Dione, Karen Marshall,
Christoph Weber, Birthe Paul, Isabelle, Baltenweck, Iddo Dror, Chris Jones, Michael
Peters, Ulf Magnusson
3rd Meeting of the Independent Steering Committee, held online
23rd October 2019

2. Integrated technology and best practices
innovations basket
Input and service
providers
Producers Pig collectors, traders,
wholesalers Pork joints Consumers
PigSmartPlatform
Aggregators
Aggregators
Market arrangements
- pricing terms
- supply quantities
- supply quality
- timing
Institutional innovation in the form of market
arrangements to improve market linkages and
relationships to support the VC system
Market pull
Integrated technological and institutional innovations

3. Project objectives
 Pilot and evaluate the market arrangements at the level of
pig aggregators to strengthen market linkages
 Implement and evaluate an integrated package for improving
pig productivity, through a PigSmart digital extension
platform – which includes several elements
 Develop, test and evaluate best-bet interventions for
reducing the environmental footprint primarily through
waste (manure) management and adaption to heat stress

4. Motivation/Setting
 Best-bet interventions pilot
tested singly since 2012
 Low uptake due to financial
constraints and market
inefficiencies
o Dione et al (forthcoming) – Training
of smallholder pig farmers on
biosecurity: impact on KAP
o Asindu et al (2019) – Farmer demand
and willingness to pay for sweet
potato silage-based diets as pig feed
(60:40 ration)
o Ouma et al (2018) – ASF control and
market integration and ex-ante
impact assessment

5. Motivation/Setting
 New project focusses on supporting
stronger and more profitable market
linkages between pig market aggregators
(buyers) and pig producers through
market arrangements;
o to incentivise uptake of an integrated
package of productivity and climate-smart
options
 Heavy focus on private sector
involvement
 Utilisation of digital extension to
disseminate knowledge and information
on pig production (health, feed, improved
genetics, environmental management)

6. Market arrangements

7. Project objectives
 Pilot and evaluate innovative market arrangements at the level of pig
aggregators to strengthen market linkages between them and pig farmers
and link the farmers to input and service providers
 Implement and evaluate an integrated package for improving pig
productivity and performance, through a PigSmart digital extension platform
for farmers participating in the market arrangements. Elements include
o pig herd health practices, reproductive management, improved genetics, and
better feeding
 Strengthen the national and regional pig MSPS and catalyze lower level
MSPs to facilitate learning of project elements, raise visibility and advocate
for the sector
 Develop, test and evaluate best-bet interventions for reducing the
environmental footprint primarily through waste (manure) management
and adaption to heat stress

8. Outputs and outcomes
 Outputs
o New and gender inclusive market arrangements that support
market linkages tested, between pig aggregators, and men and
women pig farmers, coupled with training on productivity-
enhancing package of technologies, using innovative ICT based
capacity development approaches (PigSmart).
o Integrated best bet technologies tested and analysed - including
an analysis of the synergies between the technologies/practices
o Digital agriculture ecosystem better designed for applications in
the pig value chain

9. Outputs and outcomes
 Outcomes
o Pig aggregators have reliable and consistent supply of healthy and
quality pigs and producers are well compensated through better
market prices of pigs
o Increased market opportunities and growth in business for value
chain actors (pig aggregators/ input & service
providers/producers) through market arrangements
o Increased income for all actors in the value chain

10. Impact
 Improved livelihoods of the value chain actors i.e. producers,
input & service providers and pig aggregators through:
o Strengthened and sustainable market arrangements
between the pig producers and the aggregators and
o Integrated technology packages

11. Entry Point Short–medium term changes Medium-long term changes Longer term changes
Adoption of technology packages and best
practices by farmers
Access to quality inputs and services
Input & service providers have the information and
are able to provide integrated packages of quality
feeds, animal health, AI, and better husbandry
practices, including manure management
Better market organization and linkages
with aggregators and inputs and service
providers
Better coordination among aggregators on
slaughtering & pricing
Increased value of investment through consistent
business relationship with the farmer (process
towards building trust)
Producers
Input &
Service
providers
Aggregat
ors
Business growth
(volumes and
income) for value
chain actors
Vision: Improving incomes of pig value chain actors through marketing arrangements and sustainable integrated
technology packages
Increased business orientation of the input
& service providers
Better management of aggregators through
District level associations and/or
cooperative
Allegiances of farmers, brokers, & extension
services to the aggregators
Standardization of weight estimation of the
live pigs; carcass quality etc
"Professionalization" of aggregators
(capacity development)
Pig aggregators are aware and (equitably)
adopt new market arrangements with
farmers and input/service providers
Improved transparency and efficiency in the
value chain
Input & service providers(incl. extension) are
integrated within the market arrangements
Pig aggregators establish (equitable)
marketing arrangements with farmers and
are more supportive of producers in order to
get better quality and quantities
Farmers (and/or aggregators/middlemen) have
access to MFI for piggery
Aggregators have
increased market
opportunities &
income through the
marketing
arrangements
Farmers consistently
supply better quality
pigs to aggregators
for better prices
Improved pig productivity
Farmers access extension messaging on integrated
package through digital platforms.
Other VC actors also access targeted messaging
Increased use of digitally available
solutions to pig production & marketing
by the VC actors

12. Research questions
 To what extent do the marketing arrangements that enhance pig
market linkages for farmers and aligned to business interests of pig
aggregators and input and service providers result in improved
performance of the pig value chain?
 To what extent do the marketing arrangements influence adoption of
the farm-level integrated productivity enhancing package (technologies
and management practices) by farmers? What elements of the package
are adopted by the farmers and why?
 To what extent do the integrated packages of farm level interventions
(feed + health + genetics + environment) translate into higher
productivity and reduced environmental externalities?
 To what extent are learning sharing platforms such as the pig multi-
stakeholder platforms (MSPs) effective in influencing learning outcomes
and contributing to improved pig value chain performance?

13. Research design
 Mixed approaches – theory and evidence based to evaluate outcomes from
piloting market arrangements/integrated technology and best practices
interventions
 Target population:
o Aggregators, input and service providers in Kampala city, Mukono and Wakiso
districts and Masaka municipality
o Farmers from the same districts and linked to the aggregators
 Before - after, quasi-experimental design coupled with econometric analysis
to assess the impact and effectiveness of the interventions in delivering the
expected outcomes
 Baseline and end line data at the levels of farmers, aggregators and input
and service providers for before-after assessments
 Assessments to be supplemented with causal pathway analysis for
triangulation and to support any evidence of causality from the quantitative
data
 Qualitative and quantitative research approaches
o Participatory approaches with aggregators and input ad service providers and
farmers on the various forms of market arrangements

14. Market system facilitation process (led by Ultimate
Business Strategies)
 An initial aggregator identification in project sites, profiling and characterization -
expected variation in their current marketing arrangements
 Full list of aggregators identified in the project sites will be invited to an initial
meeting and aggregators interested to partner in the project will self-select into the
project
 2nd facilitated meeting :
o at the project sites (district level) aggregators, input and service providers and selected
farmers and farmer groups will discuss the marketing arrangements that may work for
them
o integrated packages and their components, including PigSmart for improving pig
productivity will be introduced to get aggregator buy-in to support farmers to access the
packages through linkages with input and service providers
o market arrangements may take the form of formal or informal agreements
o farmers involved in the market arrangements will receive advisory services through
PigSmart platform
 Coaching ad mentoring of the agreements in subsequent meetings

15. Integrated technology and best practices
innovations basket
Input and service
providers
Producers Pig collectors, traders,
wholesalers Pork joints Consumers
PigSmartPlatform
Aggregators
Aggregators
Market arrangements
- pricing terms
- supply quantities
- supply quality
- timing
Institutional innovation in the form of market
arrangements to improve market linkages and
relationships to support the VC system
Market pull
Integrated technologies and best practices
package

16. Multichannel Digitalisation (PigSmart) of the
Pig Value chain in Uganda
• PigSmart. Bundled Digital platform
(extension, disease surveillance, feed app,
etc) that links the small holder pig farmer to
quality controlled value chain actors and
products. A Two-way flow of information.
• Objectives. (1) Strengthen digital extension
channels (sms, IVR, video ) and; (2) develop
PigSmart use cases in the pig value chain
• Aim. Farmers increase productivity and
income because of better access to timely,
relevant, and actionable information.

17. PigSmart Use Cases
1. Extension facing. Multimedia supported extension
sessions
2. Farmer facing. Relevant multimedia solutions
targeting the farmer
3. Inputs suppliers facing. Input suppliers such as drug
stockists, commercial feed sellers will be linked to the
platform to get information/knowledge on biosecurity,
nutrition, husbandry and drug management, etc….

18. Sustainability of PigSmart
• Who will continue after the project? Leveraging
existing platforms currently operational. Partner vis-à-
vis contractor
• Costly to build? Partner will not build PigSmart. An
existing platform will be optimised to realise the
PigSmart vision
• Is the ICT solution one system or different solutions
contributing to an integrated package? The dream is
to have one various solutions that together provide the
PigSmart Ecosystem.

19. Animal Health Interventions
• Support capacities at different levels
– Strengthen advisory services in best practices in
diseases control and husbandry using PigSmart for
farmers and input suppliers
– Training veterinarians on application of herd health
services at farm level
– Setting up disease reporting platform for enabling
farmers send messages or pictures of sick animal
• PigSmart activities:
– Disseminate existing IVR pig biosecurity audio
messages to scale
– Biosecurity and anti-microbial use reduction needs
more awareness at scale using animated clips
– Mobile disease surveillance tool

20. Feed and Forages interventions
• Selecting and testing superior and heat tolerant forages
(Urochloa and Megathyrsus grasses) and food/feed
crop cultivars for pig feeding.
• Making balanced, least-cost rations (using Feed
Calculator) based on local feed resources for pig
feeding.
PigSmart activities:
– Developing a mobile phone based Feed Calculator to
compound least-cost rations based on local feeds for
pig feeding
– Farmer and extension guide tool/cards for feeding
pigs
– Facilitate forage use awareness through animated
series accessible on multimedia channels

21. Commercial feed producers: Training and
certification scheme
Caterylize formation of
Feed Manufacturers
Association
Feed
analysis
facilities

22. Livestock and the Environment interventions
• Assess the environmental impacts of different pig
production systems, and changes introduced by
integrated technology packages
• Estimate and map potential future heat stress of pigs in
Uganda.
• Smallholder manure management.
PigSmart activities:
• Develop pig heat stress awareness tools/job aids–
elevated pen, water ad lib, mixing feed with water ,pig
swimming/wallowing, pouring water on the skin etc.

23. Genetics Interventions
• Pilot testing of a community-based AI model.
• Capacity building of farmers on AI.
• Capacity building of AI service providers.
• Strengthening linkages between AI service providers
and semen suppliers

24. • Stakeholder mapping and engagement process

25. National stakeholder engagement strategy –
Uganda
Power Stakeholder name and
contact
What is your general
engagement strategy?
What specific activities will you do? Who will do them and
when?
What materials
or products are
needed?
HIGH MAAIF – Department
of Animal Health
Co-design and
implementation of the pig
value chain project
 Sensitisation meeting on the
pig value chain project –
present to the MAAIF Directors
 Invite them to participate in
project meetings and
workshops
 Involve them in quality
assurance activities
 Training veterinary extension
staff in good animal health
practices
Ben Lukuyu + Uganda CRP
team and Department
Heads.
Involvement in project
events - Ongoing
Sensitisation - Q4 2019
Other activities - 2020
One page project
brief (Mireille to
help)MEDIUM-
HIGH
MAAIF – Directorate of
Extension Services
MEDIUM-
HIGH
National Drug and
Food Authority
Resolve issues of veterinary
drug quality and use, with
both stockists and farmers
 Hold a meeting to understand
their policies and practices and
introduce the pig project
 Agree on future involvement in
project activities
Michel Dione Q4 2019
MEDIUM-
LOW
Uganda National
Bureau of Standards
Understand their activities
better and the alignment with
the pig project
 Request for a meeting with
them to share the proposal and
then define how we can work
together on feed certification
Ben Lukuyu Q1 2020 One page project
brief

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