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Book (stand-alone)Global livestock production systems 2011
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No results found.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 bo ok 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 provi ded, 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. This book provides a formal reference to Version 5 of the global livestock production systems map, and to revised estimates of the numbers of rural poor livestock keepers, by country and live stock production system. These maps and data are freely available for download via FAO’s web pages: http://www.fao.org/AG/againfo/resources/en/glw/home.html. It is hoped that this publication will stimulate further work in this field and encourage the use of livestock production systems information and maps in research and analysis. -
Book (series)Collecting data on livestock 1992
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No results found.The Statistical Development Series is a sequence of comprehensive technical manuals on the various aspects of the statistical programmes which make up a national information system for food and agriculture. The publication "Food and Agricultural Statistics in the Context of a National Information System", "Programme for the 1990 World Census of Agriculture", and its supplements for Africa and Europe", "Microcomputer Based Data Processing and Sampling Methods for Agricultural surveys", have already been published. This publication on livestock statistics is intended to assist statisticians in their work in a particularly difficult and varied area. users of this manuel are kindly invited to communicate to FAO their comments and suggestions for the improvement of subsequent editions. -
Book (stand-alone)Measuring the Role of Livestock in the Household Economy 2016
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No results found.This Guidebook presents a comprehensive module template for effectively including livestock in multi-topic and agricultural household surveys. It includes short, standard, and expanded versions of a livestock questionnaire tested and valided in different countries. The livestock questionnaires differ in the level of detail that can be gauged from each, and have four common objectives: to generate basic statistics on key livestock-related variables, such as livestock ownership; to measure the val ue of household livestock; to measure the cash and in-kind income from livestock; to characterize household livestock husbandry and production practices. The Guidebook is a practical tool for survey practitioners—including Bureaus of Statistics, ministries responsible for livestock, and non-governmental and civil-society organizations, regional institutions, international organizations, the private sector, and other stakeholders—to collect data on the role of livestock in the household economy a nd its contribution to livelihoods and identify priority areas for policy reforms and investments.
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