Gambia- The Beef

Gambia- The Beef

Facts about beef in Gambia- The

  • Livestock in Gambia are essential part of fostering national food security particularly through direct consumption (meat- milk- broilers and eggs) and incomes earned from the sale of animals and animal products
  • In 2002- Gambia has only 5.2 kg/person/year meat consumption which is relatively low.
  • In 2007- it did increased a bit to about 9.7 kg/person/year.
  • Report from the FAO’s 2009 “The State of Food and Agriculture-” shows that Gambia’s meat consumption increased to an average of 19.2 kg/person/year.