Dairy Sciene Park has been accepted as and SDG Action 40154. The DSP contributions have been described as follows:
Good Governance: Producing more with less, while balancing consumption, and reducing losses,
must be our target for livestock production (FAO 2018). Livestock supply chains are resource-hungry, using
large amounts of land, water, nutrients and energy and contributing significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. As consumption of animal products is expected to increase, the livestock sector needs to
produce more with less. Unsustainable production and consumption not only contribute to inefficient use
of resources but are also the source of lost economic opportunities, environmental damage, poverty and
health problems. This Mission would focus on sustainable livestock production through good governance
and improved marketing linkages under Livestock Technopark Peshawar, ensuring livestock based food
security, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 (UN SDG #2).
Food safety: Livestock has been a source of milk, meat and eggs which need to be ensured for
health safety, as 70% of human diseases are originated from livestock related facilities. A prolonged
exercise has been in place in the province for biorisk management at Veterinary Research Institute and
Dairy Science Park, University of Agriculture Peshawar. A good number of persons have been trained
abroad under sponsorship of Sandia National Laboratories USA, ranging from students, university
teachers, researchers, provincial ministers, government officers and industry representatives. This activity
will continue for covering stakeholders across food value chain in the province, through the proposed
BRM Center of LTP at Khyber Medial University. This activity covers UN SDG 3.
Women Empowerment: Women Empowerment has been an important segment of the livestock
value chain. Women University Mardan (WUM) has been imparting education in various life, social and
business sciences. Women have been at risk from food borne/zoonotic diseases through milk and meat
handling and livestock husbandry and lack appropriate income sources. The Vice Chancellor WUM has
participated in the biorisk management curriculum development workshop at Colombo, Sri Lanka and
Dairy Science Park IV at Konya, Turkey, along with ten delegates from WUM. The University teachers
intend to work on biorisk management, food processing, quality control and entrepreneurship
development. Women would be empowered in line with UN SDG 5, SDG Action 9671.
Good practices: Adoption of best practices can lead to large gains in natural resource-use ef-
ficiency. Rebalancing diets to reach nutritional recommendations can also have significant impact on
natural resource use and GHG emissions. Efficiency can further be improved by reducing food waste and
losses along supply chains, and targeting different stages of those chains in different regions, depending
on priorities. Because improvements are needed along the whole life cycle of products, this goal requires
the involvement of various stakeholders, including consumers, policymakers, retailers and industry
representatives. However, adapting and enforcing new technologies in local environments, and instituting
supporting policies and infrastructure to encourage adoption, will be the greater challenge. Renewable
energies like biogas and solar systems would be utilized for energizing farming, processing and other
facilities across food value chain, in line with UN SDG 7.
Employment Generation: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the merged tribal areas have been rich in
natural resources especially livestock resources. Livestock Sector is the major source of livelihood in the
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province. However, the young generation face difficulty in finding employment in the provincial public or
private sectors, as the livestock farming is predominantly subsistent with 1-4 animals which keeps more
than 70% of the livestock population. Only 3% of the livestock population is in peri-urban commercial
farms of over 30 animals each. Forty percent of sheep population, however, is kept in units of 50-350
animals. Livestock/agriculture farming, processing, marketing and services network has absorbed about
44% of the labor force, almost 80% of the population relies on this sector for a significant part of their
income (FAO, 2015). This Mission would focus on transformation of the livestock sector with an
autonomous governing setup for generating decent employment across the value chain in line with UN
SDG 8.
Responsiveness: Responsiveness has been included in the policy document for supplying safe and
affordable food of animal origin to domestic and international markets. The public sector organizations
have been established with a predefined mandate of livestock extension, research and education. The
available limited resources can only respond to the routine requirements of clients; like a civil veterinary
hospital has got facilities to receive a sick animal along with the owner, to examine the animal; record the
history, get chit fee and provide a prescription for treatment of the disease. Occasionally awareness
campaigns are held for introduction of good practices, but here again, the farmers expect some free
medication to treat the diseases instead of some good advice to the farmer for enhance profitability of
the farm. Research wing of the Livestock Department as well as the Universities lack the facilities to
respond to the demands of the investors and potential farmers/processors/entrepreneurs regarding
availability of funds, marketing support, administrative and legislative support. The proposed Livestock
Technopark Peshawar (LTP) is expected to fill up the resources/communication gap between the public
sector organizations and the beneficiaries as an academia-industry-government-society nexus. This would
be in line with SDG 16 calling for peace, security and prosperity in the war-hit region of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and help in ending the cycles of conflicts of interests between livestock producers, products
processors, consumers and the public sector organizations, as per UN SDG 16.