Sustainable livestock management for poverty alleviation and food security /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hooft, Katrien van t́, 1956- (Author), Bhandari, Dilip P. (Author), Wollen, Terry S. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Subjects:	Food security > Developing countries. Livestock systems > Developing countries. Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000) Meat Producing Animals. Animal husbandry. Farming systems research. Farming systems. Livestock farming. Livestock. Low income groups. Mixed farming. Rural areas. Urban areas. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.