Livestock Development Strategies for Low Income Countries: Proceedings of the Joint FAO/ILRI Roundtable on Livestock Development Strategies for Low Income Countries : International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27 February-02 March 1995R. T. Wilson, Simeon Ehui, Simon Mack Part one: Background papers - Keynote paper: the contribution of livestock to food security and sustainable development; Development support an livestock services; Impact of human activities and livestock on the African environment an attempt to partition the pressure; Part two: Issues, constraints and opportunities for livestock development; Macroeconomic, international trade and sectoral policies in livestock development an analysis with particular reference to low income countries; Research and technology tansfer for livestock development; Part three;Options for increasing livestock contribution from the major production systems; Redesigning for risk, tracking and buffering environmental variability in Africa rangelands; Mixed farming systems in subSaharanAfrica; Livestock, feeds and mixed farming systems in West Asia and North Africa; Constraints, and opportunities for livestock development in mixed farming systems in tropical; Mixed farming and intensification of animal production systems in Asia; Part Four: Working grooooooooooooup sessions. |
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BACKGROUND PAPERS | 7 |
Development support and livestock services | 23 |
an attempt to partition | 29 |
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Addis Ababa agricultural research Agriculture Organization animal products areas Asia and North beef biomass caput cattle cent Centre for Africa CGIAR comparative advantage constraints consumption contribution crop residues crop-livestock dairy degradation developing countries domestic economic ecoregional effects environment environmental especially Ethiopia exports farmers feed resources Food and Agriculture food security forage global grain grazing highlands IARCS ILRI impact important improved increased inputs integrated intensification International Livestock Centre land Latin America legumes livestock development livestock products livestock sector low income countries macroeconomic major manure meat milk mixed farming systems NARS Nordblom numbers nutrient output pasture population density population growth potential poultry problems production systems programmes projects rainfed rangeland rates research and development Research Institute role Roundtable ruminants rural Sahel savannas semiarid small ruminants soil strategies subhumid subSaharan Africa sustainable Syria Table trade trends tropical urban WANA Washington DC West Asia World Bank