E-Livestock Global App consists of an App and a web portal. Farmers both large commercial and small rural can have their cattle on the system where life events are recorded. The App works both online and offline allowing remote areas to participate.

E-Livestock is a blockchain-based livestock identification system that ensures transparency, security, and traceability of registered cattle. The platform works through the following steps: 1. SmartTagging: Each animal is tagged with a unique RFID tag storing critical information such as breed, weight, and health records. 2. RFID Scanning: Relationship officers or designated agents scan the tags using a handheld reader. 3. Data Integration: The scanned data is transmitted to the E-Livestock app, providing real-time insights into the livestock's condition and location. 4. Legal Title Transfer: The system allows for the legal transfer of ownership of the cattle between farmers and also collateralized livestock for the duration of the loan agreement. 5. Real-Time Monitoring: Livestock records are updated in real-time through a mobile application (when in network range otherwise stored on App), ensuring accurate and up-to-date tracking. 6. Livestock Insurance: Coupled with a registry, livestock insurance is available to protect both the lender and the farmer against risks such as disease and theft in cases of collateralisation. 1.1 Smallholder Farmers There are a number of areas where the benefits the smallholder livestock farmers: 1.1.1 Identification of Stock By allocating a unique identification number to each animal, the farmers are able to positively identify their animals in cases where there are ownership disputes. In addition, the way that the system has been designed, if an animal gets lost but is tagged, then the Vet Department staff can always scan it and inform the owner. This is possible because during registration, the contact details of each farmer are recorded. In the event of stock theft, the farmer can also get back their animals quite easily because of the tag. 1.1.2 Reduction in the Cost of Compliance In meetings with smallholder farmers one of the recurring issues is the cost of compliance especially as it relates to movement permits (within or outside a district). 1.1.3 Financial Inclusion Large portions of the adult population in Africa are financially excluded. The most affected of these are in the rural areas where access to banking services is quite difficult. Each farmer registered is able to transact just as those who have bank accounts. The department can also reduce the risk of cash payments for cattle levies by carrying out automatic deductions from the farmer. 1.1.4 Collaterisation of Cattle With the enactment of the Movable Property Security Interests acts in most countries, smallholder livestock farmers are able to use their cattle as collateral to get loans from financial institutions. This is a critical component of the commercialisation of smallholder livestock enterprises. Whilst, there have been efforts in the past to use cattle as collateral, they have faltered due to lack of a proper tracking system. 1.2 Departments of Veterinary Services The Department of Veterinary Services is mandated with the livestock disease control and management. Whilst the Department has made a lot of headway in this regard, it still faces serious challenges which are going to be mainly addressed by the system as follows: 1.2.1 Cattle Census Whilst this is not the primary purpose of the system, it is able to contribute to the production of accurate figures of the cattle at any dip tank. Once all the cattle in the country are tagged, then department will have a very good estimate of the cattle in the country. They can then use this as a basis for planning livestock interventions in Zambia. 1.2.2 Dipping and Dipping Levies The system will allow department and other interested stakeholders to have at their finger-tips, the number of cattle that are dipping at any particular dip tank in the country at any one time. They will be able to track and query any fluctuations in dipping patterns. Through this system, they will also have a good idea of the amount of money that the farmers should pay for dipping fees. 1.2.3 Disease Outbreak Control and Management Currently, if there is a disease outbreak, the department finds it very difficult to complete shut down an area and confine the outbreak in a particular area. With this system, first they can record all the inoculations onto the system but more importantly can close off an affected area. The system will not generate any movement permits for cattle to or from a restricted zone. 1.3 Rural District Councils For quite some time now, rural local authorities have been spending a lot of money looking after stray cattle. With this system, an animal is only considered as stray if it does not have a tag. With most of the cattle in the country being tagged, there will be very few animals that could be considered as stray. 1.4 Anti-Stocktheft Whilst the programme will not directly address the issue of stolen animals that are slaughtered outside the normal abattoir system, the tagging programme will make it easier for the police to track stolen animals. The Unit will scan cattle randomly during their patrols. Any animal that is in an area that it is not supposed to be will then be subjected to the necessary investigation. 1.5 Abattoirs Locally, the abattoirs are the final destination for the cattle meant for slaughter. The abattoirs will be able to trace the cattle that they will be slaughtering and understand their dipping, disease and other important history. The system should be able to reduce the number of condemned animals at slaughter. 1.6 Donors and NGOs Climate change has played havoc with rain-fed crop production. There has been a shift by the donors and NGOs towards livestock based interventions. The tagging programme will assist the sector to be better able to track not only the livestock that they would have introduced into the communities but also the farmers themselves. Through the system, the donors and NGOs will now be able to quantitatively track the impact of their programmes. 1.7 The Export Market Due to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and the possible failure to provide an authentic traceability system, it will be hard to export beef. Whilst the initial target of this tagging system is the local beef market, there is need to understand that should there be any intentions to have beef exports, traceability is going to be a key factor for consideration. This app is currently running and is available on both Android and Apple phones.