Poverty Alleviation, Environment and Public Health: Developing Enabling Policy Environments for the Livestock Sector

Abstract

One of the major foci of the FAO PPLP Initiative is strengthening the capacity of national governments’ to develop livestock policy that both responds to the needs of stakeholders and also reflects the resources and requirements of relevant state institutions. This report is on a workshop that focussed on building livestock policy capacity in the Mekong countries. The report outlines the aims, process and outputs from the workshop entitled ‘Poverty Alleviation, Environment and Public health: Dev eloping Enabling Policy Environments for the Livestock Sector’, held in Phnom Penh from June 18-20, 2003.