Well-performing livestock systems matter enormously for both income and better nutritional outcomes among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), and policy Studies Institute (PSI) collaborated on a project to improve the evidence and policies for better performing livestock systems in Ethiopia and to bring markets and consumption – as well as production – forward as an integral component of research on livestock systems. In line with this, a survey was fielded last year to look at the dairy value chain in Ethiopia. The dataset for this has now been published here.