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Chapter 8 – <strong>Dairy</strong>-<strong>in</strong>dustry development programmes: Their role <strong>in</strong> food [...] 339<br />

Box 8.5 (cont<strong>in</strong>ued)<br />

A dairy park <strong>in</strong> the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Prov<strong>in</strong>ce of Ch<strong>in</strong>a<br />

©Mengnui <strong>Dairy</strong> Company<br />

<strong>and</strong> the dairy park model, with its captive producers, enable restrictive producer pric<strong>in</strong>g;<br />

(v) policies <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>vestment have focused on the process<strong>in</strong>g side, with lend<strong>in</strong>g to<br />

producers generally focused on loans for breed<strong>in</strong>g animals; <strong>and</strong> (vi) policies support<strong>in</strong>g<br />

producer <strong>in</strong>vestment further up the cha<strong>in</strong>s, such as <strong>in</strong> chill<strong>in</strong>g systems, would <strong>in</strong>crease<br />

smallholders’ negotiat<strong>in</strong>g power with the processors.<br />

1 3A Bus<strong>in</strong>ess Consult<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Sha<strong>in</strong>wright Consult<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Research Group, 2006.<br />

2 Price Department, National Development <strong>and</strong> Reform Commission, Ch<strong>in</strong>a, 2007.<br />

Source: <strong>FAO</strong>, 2008.<br />

local milk to support domestic smallholders <strong>and</strong> processors. Today over six million<br />

schoolchildren get milk at school <strong>and</strong> school consumption has risen from under<br />

5 kg per year <strong>in</strong> 1983 to over 40 kg per year <strong>and</strong> per capita consumption to 31 kg<br />

(<strong>FAO</strong>, 2008).<br />

In 2007 the Animal Production <strong>and</strong> Health Commission for Asia <strong>and</strong> the Pacific<br />

(APHCA), <strong>FAO</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) organized an<br />

18-country strategy for smallholder dairy development. The ensu<strong>in</strong>g Chiang Mai<br />

Declaration – A glass of Asian milk a day for every Asian child – <strong>in</strong>cluded improved<br />

household food security <strong>and</strong> nutrition as a pillar of the decade-long US$250-million<br />

<strong>in</strong>vestment. Based on n<strong>in</strong>e country studies, the strategy (<strong>FAO</strong>, 2008) identifies<br />

major factors that <strong>in</strong>fluence the success of dairy development efforts. These <strong>in</strong>clude<br />

the follow<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

• Smallholders must be competitive if they are to access markets, i.e. they<br />

must produce top-quality milk at affordable prices. If they achieve this,<br />

most subsistence smallholder producers become small-scale commercial<br />

dairy farmers.<br />

• A strategy of <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g smallholders requires a development vehicle sensitive<br />

to impacts of policies, programmes <strong>and</strong> activities on them.

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