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Small animals for small farms

Year of publication 2011

Author Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Small animals have a large potential and provide numerous opportunities to support smallholder farmers and their livelihoods. They require minimal inputs as a farm enterprise and fit well into farming systems. Feed can be sourced locally, minimal labour and capital are required and they are adaptable to rural, peri-urban and urban farm settings. Their small size facilitates herd management and marketing. Small animals provide meat at low cost for small-scale farmers and at affordable prices to c onsumers enabling access to animal protein even to the poorest members of a community. Their furs, hides and skins can also be successfully traded. It is hoped that development workers, policy-makers and others involved with small-scale farmers recognise the opportunities and benefits that can derive from small animal enterprises and implement projects and development plans that foster such enterprises and improve small-scale farmers’ livelihoods.

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