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Institutional strategies to improve producers’ and governments’ response capacity in Southeast Asia’s dynamic livestock markets
theme	Theme 3: Knowledge and industrial dynamics
time frame	2005-2007
researcher(s)	Andy Hall
description	This study explores aspects of the nature of innovation capacity. Specifically, the types of social and institutional arrangements required to mobilise different knowledge stocks and support services needed to enhance the capacity of livestock sector actors to innovate in response to dynamic markets and that at the same time safeguards public health and the livelihoods of poor people linked with the sector. Mirroring recent trends throughout the developing world, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam have witnessed rapid gains in livestock production in the last two decades. Yet this growth has highlighted weaknesses in their national capacity to maintain adequate and fair provision of veterinary and other related services and to respond effectively to public health threats. The study seeks to develop a better conceptualisation of response capacity and to draw generic lesson on the limitations of current provisions and identify policy and other intervention strategies needed to strengthen this capacity.
deliverables	Vu, Tuong. 2006. Institutional strategies to improve producers’ and governments’ response capacity in Southeast Asia’s dynamic livestock markets. FAO PPLPI Working Paper, under preparation Vu, Tuong. 2006. Rethinking ‘traditional’ concepts of livestock services. Paper presented at the International Conference of Livestock Services, Beijing, April 16 – 22, 2006. Dijkman, J. 2005. Changing markets for livestock services. FAO PPLPI Concept note

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