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Global livestock production systems
Author: ROBINSON Timothy
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Publication date: 04-2012
166 p. · Paperback
166 p. · Paperback
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Informed livestock sector policy development and priority setting is
heavily dependent on a good understanding of livestock production systems.
In a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization
and the International Livestock Research Institute, stock has been taken
of where we have come from in agricultural systems classification and
mapping; the current state of the art; and the directions in which
research and data collection efforts need to take in the future. The book
also addresses issues relating to the intensity and scale of production,
moving from what is done to how it is done. The intensification of
production is an area of particular importance, for it is in the intensive
systems that changes are occurring most rapidly and where most information
is needed on the implications that intensification of production may have
for livelihoods, poverty alleviation, animal diseases, public health and
environmental outcomes. A series of case studies is provided, linking
livestock production systems to rural livelihoods and poverty and examples
of the application of livestock production system maps are drawn from
livestock production, now and in the future; livestock’s impact on the
global environment; animal and public health; and livestock and
livelihoods.
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