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Book (stand-alone)Integrated Crop Management Vol.7-2010 - Enhancing Crop-Livestock Systems in Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Production Intensification
A Farmer Discovery Process Going to Scale in Burkina Faso
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No results found.This is a story about how FAO assisted groups of farmers in five farming communities in the moist savanna zone of South Western Burkina Faso to enhance their crop-livestock systems through Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices, including crop diversification, using an innovative farmer discovery process, to bring about agricultural intensification and improvement in livelihoods. FAO’s assistance was delivered largely by working with national institutions, adding value to ongoing stakeholder resources and activities. It is a story of positive intensification outcomes brought about by adapting ‘proven principles and practices’ of CA and crop diversification into existing crop-livestock systems. FAO worked with a range of stakeholders including the farmers and their communities, and the research and extension stakeholders, to create convergence and enable a farmer-based discovery process to experiment with a set of fundamentally new principles and elements in their farming practices for integrated crop-livestock production intensification. The positive outcomes offer a real promise and an opportunity for bringing about a large scale impact on agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the moist savanna zone of West Africa, often referred to as the potential ‘bread basket’ because of the zone’s high productivity potential for integrated crop-livestock production. The conceptual elements draw substantially from new innovations in sus tainable intensification in similar agroecologies in the savannas of Brazil. This publication describes the multi-stakeholder process which led the successful outcomes, and the opportunity for a greater change that now exists and should be harnessed for sustainable agricultural development, nationally and regionally. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Research on farm and livestock productivity in the central Ethiopian highlands: Initial results, 1977-1980 1983
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DocumentLivestock in a Changing Landscape: Social Consequences for Mixed Crop-Livestock Production Systems in Developing Countries
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2007Also available in:
No results found.Smallholders Predominate in Mixed Crop-Livestock Production Systems. Economic activities in livestock in mixed production systems in the developing world are predominantly undertaken by smallholders, making a living out of small farms <2 hectares per farm. These small farms account for a significantly larger share of meat and milk outputs in developing countries, and contribute significantly to rural (self-)employment given the labour intensity of smallholder production systems. Projections indi cate that small farms will continue to be a prominent feature in rural areas in the next decades. Informal market chains for are the main link between rural smallholder keepers of livestock and the growing demand for meat and dairy products, both in the major urban centres and smaller rural towns. Informal markets handle a far large share of market output than the formal market chains that linked with supermarkets and other outlets of higher-end meat and milk products. They generate more employm ent per unit of output as well as in the aggregate along the processing and distribution chain, as compared to their more capitalintensive formal market chain counterparts.
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