Sao Tome and Principe - Livestock Development Support Project

The Livestock Development Support Project (PADE) in Sao Tome and Principe will contribute to improving the livestock health environment in order to achieve a significant reduction in animal mortality, an improvement in livestock productivity levels by at least raising the technical level of smallholder farmers and improving their production conditions. The main expected outputs of the project are (i) the creation of an epidemiological surveillance unit for programmes to control the main epizootics, (ii) the training of managers, technicians and field workers to organize and operate an extension/training and research and development unit, (iii) the promotion of livestock activities including financial support to livestock farmers in the family sector, the rationalisation of the use of agricultural by-products, the import of pig, sheep and goat breeding stock, the rehabilitation and construction of slaughter and meat marketing facilities, and (iv) the rehabilitation and equipment of the Livestock Directorate, the decentralisation of its services and the strengthening of the veterinary laboratory and health inspection services.