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Author:

Hooft, Katrien van t, 1956-

Title:

Sustainable livestock management for poverty alleviation and food security / Katrien E. van't Hooft, Terry S. Wollen, Dilip P. Bhandari.

Publisher:

CABI,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 194 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Livestock systems--Developing countries.
Food security--Developing countries.

Other Authors:

Wollen, Terry S.
Bhandari, Dilip P.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1845938275 (alk. paper)
9781845938277 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)742305992

LCCN:

2011029852

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)