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Book (series)Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: International Rules, Food Safety and the Poor Developing Country Livestock Producer 2005
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No results found.This is the 25th 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 fertilizer 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. -
Book (series)Making Livestock Policies Better Serve the Interests of Vietnam's Poor 2003
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No results found.Vietnam's economy is currently in transition from a central planning system to a market-oriented one. Nevertheless, the state still intervenes heavily into and seeks to control productive activities, at the expense of private initiatives. State agents also collect huge "rents" from producers and consumers, mainly through their monopolization of trade access. Compared to crops, the livestock sector is blessed with less direct government intervention and a weak state-owned corporation. -
Book (series)Contract Farming and Other Market Institutions as Mechanisms for Integrating Smallholder Livestock Producers in the Growth and Development of the Livestock Sector in Developing Countries 2008
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No results found.This is the 45th 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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