This is the first report on the contribution of livestock to the Ethiopian economy. This report appraises the contribution of livestock to Ethiopia’s agricultural GDP. It also reviews the methods developed to examine the contribution of livestock to the Ethiopian economy, and recommends that these methods be extended to evaluate the contribution of livestock to agricultural GDP and to the wider economy of the other IGAD member states.
July 5, 2011
IGAD LPI WP 02-10 The Contribution of Livestock to the Ethiopian Economy – Part I_Oct’10_AD
Posted by IGAD LPI Communication[2] Comments
IGAD Livestock Policy Initiative 
January 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm
In many developing and under developed country contribution of livestock sector in national economy is under estimated leading to less allocation of development budget. Which in turn has negative effect on its development. So thanks to the team for devising proper method to calculate real GDP contribution of livestock.
Premy
Nepal
March 18, 2014 at 2:21 pm
That is a great work, thank you IGAD LPI team. To ensure food security and to fully transform the agricultural economy of developing countries particularly to the IGAD members, moving the livestock economy from stationary state leads to total economy transformation of small holders farmers in particular and the economy as whole. I would say for long times/several years there was no equal attention given to livestock as it was and is to crop economy and this is highly correlated with professional biases and inappropriate policy directions. The potential of livestock economy and its contribution to the national GDP is hidden inside the name of Agricultural economy. Livestock is an engine to transform the crop-livestock economy/Agricultural economy as livestock plays a leading role in farming activities of the rural small holder farmers.