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Smallholder Livestock Keepers in the Era of Globalization

Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock

Year of publication 2005

Pages 18 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) Research Report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Despite economic growth and development in most countries of the world, extreme poverty is still at an unacceptably high level, particularly in rural areas. The majority of the world’s poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and within agriculture livestock fulfill a number of important roles. Growth rates of the livestock sector, fuelled by increasing demand for livestock derived food items from growing and more affluent urban populations, are higher than those for crops and non-food a gricultural products. Diversification into and intensification of smallholder livestock production could therefore effectively contribute to poverty alleviation. Markets, both for production inputs as well as for outputs are essential for connecting rural smallholders with urban consumers. Globalization has the potential to result in enhanced market access by smallholders through direct as well as indirect impacts but also bears the risk of their exclusion.

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