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DocumentPro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock: PPLPI’s Livestock Development Goals: Application of LDG1 to Peru, Senegal and Viet Nam 2007
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No results found.Although the poor constitute a majority in developing countries, their circumstances vary in significant ways between and within their economies. To improve their livelihoods, a better understanding of this heterogeneity is essential. This report examines poverty from the perspective of livestock dependence, an essential characteristic of rural and peri-urban households in developing countries. We find that livestock dependent populations are more likely to be poor, but the degree of their pover ty depends on complex local circumstances, including the extent of formal sector participation, property rights, and access to capital. Our insights suggest that more determined efforts to promote smallholder livestock production can be a potent catalyst for poverty alleviation, but that policies aimed at promotion of smallholder livestock keepers need to be carefully targeted and that although they can bring a large proportion of the poor over the poverty threshold, there are circumstances in w hich they will not reach the poorest population. -
Book (series)Policy Brief: The Political Economy of International Development and Pro-Poor Livestock Policies: A Comparative Assessment 2004
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No results found.What are the political measures that might be taken to advance the interests of poor livestock producers in developing countries given the political economy context within which the policies that affect them are being shaped? To answer this question a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley carried out a series of six case studies in Bolivia, Ethiopia, India, Senegal, Vietnam and (as an example of the effects of the “global north”) the European Union. -
Book (series)Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative A Living from Livestock The Political Economy of International Development and Pro-Poor Livestock Policies: A Comparative Assessment Revised and Expanded
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No results found.This is the 35th of a series of Working Papers prepared for the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI). The purpose of these papers is to explore issues related to livestock development in the context of poverty alleviation. Livestock is vital to the economies of many developing countries. Animals are a source of food, more specifically protein for human diets, income, employment and possibly foreign exchange. For low income producers, livestock can serve as a store of wealth, provide drau ght power and organic fertiliser for crop production and a means of transport. Consumption of livestock and livestock products in developing countries, though starting from a low base, is growing rapidly.
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