Africa: Africa Cannot Build a Stronger Agrifood Economy While the Livestock Sector Loses $4 Billion a Year

[African Arguments] Across Africa, the livestock sector supports more than 350 million people. Livestock is much more than an agricultural commodity. For millions of families, cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, and other animals are sources of food and income. They are also productive assets that support trade, processing, services, employment and rural wealth creation. Despite its centrality to Africa's wider agrifood economy, the systems that govern and influence the continent's livestock sector remain among the most