Sustainable livestock management for poverty alleviation and food security /
Katrien E. van't Hooft, Terry S. Wollen, Dilip P. Bhandari.
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Uk ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, 2012.
- x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.