Title:
Sustainable livestock management for poverty alleviation and food security / Katrien E. van't Hooft, Terry S. Wollen, Dilip P. Bhandari.
Main Entry:
Hooft, Katrien van ât, 1956-
Wollen, Terry S.
Bhandari, Dilip P.
Publisher:
CABI,
Publication Date:
2012.
Publication Place:
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Uk ; Cambridge, MA :
ISBN:
9781845938277 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Livestock systems -- Developing countries.
Food security -- Developing countries.
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.
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