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Pro-Poor Livestock Policy and Institutional Change

Case Studies from South Asia, the Andean Region and West Africa

Year of publication 2008

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (series)

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

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The three case studies presented here illustrate how the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI), launched in 2001 by by the Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) of FAO, experimented with the facilitation and implementation of livestock sector-related policy and institutional change. The outcomes of these change processes promise to favourably impact on the livelihoods of millions of livestock-dependent poor. Important lessons can be drawn from the case studies to guide development p lanners and practitioners in future pro-poor policy and institutional change initiatives beyond the livestock sector.

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