Goat's value chain from Lao PDR to Vietnam

Raising goats is an income-generating activity and helps improve nutrition for resource-poor households, especially those in remote, tribal and ecologically vulnerable areas. Goats thrive in Laos under extensive conditions with minimal state management and have a high potential for further development. This qualitative study tries to shed light on goat's value chain from Laos to Vietnam, focusing on its four major actors, namely, goat rearing farmers, internal and external traders, abattoir owners, and restaurateurs. Our study also scrutinize four main supporting stakeholders of the goat chain, include policy framework supporters, projects and NGOs, technical supporters and license supporters. The analysis of the gross margin suggests that commercialization of goat yields in Laos positively affe cts net income, however, the magnitude of the margins accrued to the producer is still not clear, maybe lower than other actors in the value chain.