Zambia - What Would it Take for Zambia’s Beef and Dairy Industries to Achieve Their Potential?

This report is a window into a larger
initiative, the jobs and prosperity: building Zambia's
Competitiveness (JPC) program. The JPC program is a
'joint venture' between the governments of the
Republic of Zambia, the Zambian private sector, the United
Kingdom's Department for International Development
(DFID), the African development bank group and the World
Bank Group. As such, the report represents the collective
efforts of many people who engaged in this work at different
stages in the process. This report is part of a series
produced by the World Bank's Africa Finance and Private
Sector Development Unit (AFTFP). This report explores the
potential contribution that the beef and dairy industries
could make to jobs and prosperity in Zambia, and what it
will take to achieve this potential. The Zambian government
has been looking to increase growth and job creation, and
the prosperity resulting from them, by developing a more
competitive and diversified economy. This report explores
the potential contribution that the beef and dairy
industries could make to the government's ambition and
sets out what it will take for the industries to achieve
their potential. Two main factors provide Zambia with large
potential for developing its beef and dairy industries: the
country could sustain more than double its current
population of cattle; the demand for beef and dairy products
in the domestic and regional markets is likely to increase
significantly. However, Zambia's beef and dairy
industries are currently underperforming and uncompetitive.