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=**Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop**= =**Addis Ababa**= =**24-25 August 2010**=

Milk
 * Why are different methods of increasing shelf not taken up?
 * Limited knowledge of new product development opportunities
 * Food safety measures, mitigating risk of pathogens, mycotoxins, residues
 * What are cost effective and practical way to improve quality?
 * Assessment of market demand, product preferences

Meat
 * All of the milk issues plus:
 * Risk analysis, practical cost-effective measures to mitigate risk of disease transmission, zoonotic and otherwise
 * Alternative approaches to slaughter - small, simple possibly mobile abbatoirs, lower cost

Marketing
 * Market information systems
 * Opportunities for agro-processing investment
 * Innovative, cost effective packaging, branding
 * Innovation in producer organisations, contractual mechanisms, linkages to buyers, suppliers
 * Enabling policy for small scale actors
 * Standards that meet market requirements
 * Tracability and certification mechanisms
 * New market development, demand creating, niche market assessment
 * Exploiting of indigenous knowledge in products and processing, handling
 * Translating market demand/preferences to inform and guide production strategies (e g breeds to meet certain market demands)

Gender and Equity
 * Mechanisms to ensure participation of different gender and social groups to ensure equity


 * Researchers (both social and bio-physical scientists) in systematic interaction with market actors, producers, buyers, consumers, BDS providers, policy makers, to explore opportunities, needs and knowledge gaps, and generate collective ownership
 * Stakeholder analysis, needs
 * Understand demands of consumers, preferences
 * Joint implementation plan, including participatory M&E