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Dairy industry in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and challenges

The dairy industry in Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to grow significantly. The demand for milk and dairy products is rising because of the region’s growing population. The region also has several strengths, including a favorable climate for dairy production and a large pool of potential dairy farmers.

How to safely handle and store raw milk at the farm?

During milking, milk from a healthy cow is practically free from bacteria. Therefore, farmers should protect milk from being contaminated during and after milking. They should use proper and clean equipment for milking. In small-scale dairy farming, it is essential to use milk buckets that are easy to clean, usually stainless-steel buckets.

The impacts of the invasion of Ukraine on food security in Africa

Africa remains a net food importer and is vulnerable to the surge in global commodity prices and the disruption of the global supply chains. The spike in food prices, coupled with the consequences of the war in Ukraine, has immediate and long-term effects on food security in Africa. Likely, millions of people will be pushed into poverty and hunger due to the current global context, worsening the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Small-scale dairy farming: The challenges handling milk quality

Promoting milk production in developing countries requires an investment in a milk collection network system. As the milk collection centers receive milk from various farmers, it is crucial to ensure the quality of milk collected. Testing milk delivered by each farmer becomes a critical step at the milk center.

Dairy value chain: what model of milk collection centers is efficient?

Small-scale dairy farming dominates the milk production system in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 80 percent of milk produced comes from these small-scale dairy farmers. If well developed, milk production can generate employment and stable income to millions of farmers. It also contributes to fight against food insecurity and malnutrition in the region. Dairy production faces multiple challenges in SSA as in other developing countries. Most of them are related to the dairy industry itself while others are shared with other industries in the agricultural sector.

African Agriculture: the slow progress of CAADP

The progress of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP): “only 5 out of 55 African countries currently on track to reduce undernutrition to 5 percent or less by 2025,” and “only seven countries are on track to meet the CAADP goal of doubling agricultural productivity by 2025.”

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