Sustainable livestock management for poverty alleviation and food security /

• Main Authors: Hooft, Katrien van t́, 1956- (Author), Wollen, Terry S., (Author), Bhandari, Dilip P., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Livestock systems > Developing countries.; Food security > Developing countries.; Meat Producing Animals.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal husbandry.; Farming systems.; Farming systems research.; Livestock.; Livestock farming.; Low income groups.; Mixed farming.; Rural areas.; Urban areas.; Electronic books.
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This practical learning guide, composed of 12 chapters, focuses on supporting livestock within the smallholder mixed farming systems. It provides practical ways to understand and improve smallholder animal husbandry under a variety of agricultural and ecological conditions based on the Endogenous Li...

Table of Contents:

• Trends in the livestock sector
• Livestock development approaches
• Methodologies, organisations and networks in endogenous livestock development
• Differentiating four livestock production systems
• Livestock keeping systems and poverty
• Characteristics of smallholder low-input & diversified livestock keeping
• Characteristics of smallholder more specialized livestock keeping
• Changing from smallholder low-input & diversified to more specialized livestock keeping
• Recommendations for optimising smallholder low-input & diversified livestock keeping
• Recommendations for optimising smallholder more specialized livestock keeping
• Finding pathways to markets
• Challenges and best practices in livestock development support.