Livestock development in Nigeria: A survey of the policy issues and options













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Network Paper No. 21
May 1989

by Timothy O. Williams

Visiting Research Fellow
Livestock Economics Division
ILCA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: 613215 Telex: ADDIS 21207

AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK

The author gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the Rockefeller Foundation under the Social Science Research Fellowship Programme in Agriculture which made possible his stay at ILCA as a Visiting Fellow. Thanks are also due to Stephen Sandford and Ray Brokken for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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Introduction

Overview of the livestock sub-sector

Historical survey of government objectives and policies toward the livestock sub-sector

Evaluation

Lessons and policy directions for the future

Footnotes

References