Livestock
The Livestock domain (DE) covers the terrestrial animal value chains — cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, beekeeping, rabbits, snails, specialised farming — and their ecosystem: the zootechnical upstream, livestock farmers and their organisations, animal collection and trade, slaughter and animal processing, meat and animal-product distribution, veterinary services. Aquaculture and fisheries have had their own domain, DH, since 31 August 2026: water is not pasture, and a fish cannot be stored on the hoof.
structured livestock value chains (FE01–FE07)
of agricultural GDP comes from livestock
the demand for animal protein by 2035
- Structural deficit in animal products: Cameroon imports meat, milk and eggs.
- Animal health and biosecurity insufficiently mastered on farms.
- Expensive and irregular animal feed, dependent on imported inputs.
- Nascent cold chain between livestock areas and consumption centers.
- Design of modern livestock units: buildings, genetics, technical management.
- Structuring of the milk, meat and egg value chains — from farm to processing.
- Cold-chain engineering: collection, storage, refrigerated transport.
- Financing structures adapted to the long cycles of livestock farming.
7 families, each with its actors
Animal feed, genetics, chicks, farming equipment: the upstream that conditions herd performance.
The farmers who run herds and poultry houses, for meat, milk, eggs and honey.
Cooperatives and farmer organisations structuring animal production at the grassroots.
Collectors, livestock markets and traders who keep live animals moving.
Abattoirs, dairies, cheese factories and cutting workshops: animal material becomes product.
Butchers, wholesalers and retailers of terrestrial animal products, cold chain included.
Veterinarians, animal health, analyses and prophylaxis: the service that protects the herd.
9 value chains
Broiler and layer farming: husbandry and biosecurity. Basins: peri-urban Yaoundé (Centre), Douala (Littoral) and Bafoussam (West).
Explore →Genetics, feed and market outlets. Basins: West and North-West (humid highland savannah), Centre forest zone.
Explore →Small ruminants: husbandry, meat and hide valorisation. Basins: Far North, North and Adamawa.
Explore →Fattening, dairies and cheese making. Basins: Adamawa (the historic basin, Goudali breed), Far North and North.
Explore →Managed-hive beekeeping: honey, wax and propolis. Distinct from wild forest honey (FF02). Estimated basins: Adamawa, West (Noun) and East.
Explore →Short-cycle rabbit farming. Estimated basins: peri-urban areas nationwide, and the West.
Explore →Horses, donkeys and mules: animal traction in the northern regions. Estimated basins: Far North and North.
Explore →Grasscutter farming and short-cycle game rearing. Estimated basins: East, South and Centre.
Explore →Giant African land snail (Achatina) farming: a niche export chain. Estimated basins: Centre, Littoral and South-West.
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