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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Impact of Changing Market Forces and Policies on Structural Change in the Livestock Industries of Selected Fast-Growing Developing Countries 2002
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No results found.This paper analyzes the changes in dairy markets, policies, and trade over the past two decades and discusses what can be expected in the next decade. We analyze the changes in production, consumption and trade, as well as the changes in policies and the industry structure, and discuss how various factors have affected the market and trade situation. The paper is organized as follows: we first discuss the macro-view of the Indian dairy sector. Then we discuss policy changes and the expected e ffects of globalization and trade liberalization on the scale and scope of production. In the next section we discuss the changes in the cost and return structure of dairy production and the processing sector, trends in input and output prices, and breeding and health services. In the last section we discuss the impacts of commercialization of the dairy sector on socioeconomic-health-environment issues. -
DocumentLivestock, Disease, Trade and Markets: Policy Choices for the Livestock Sector in Africa 2006
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No results found.For many years African livestock production was seen as a poor investment for development. Assumptions about low productivity, ‘backward’ management systems, lack of market orientation and poor growth potentials consigned the livestock sector to the sidelines. But after years of being ignored, livestock issues are beginning to be put back on Africa’s development agenda. Livestock are being recognised as essential assets for livelihoods; as key to moving out of poverty; as a way into lucrative ma rkets; as a source of foreign exchange; as well as important cultural resources, social safety nets and means of saving. Given this renewed emphasis, this Working Paper asks: What are some of the underlying debates, assumptions and trade-offs? What competing perspectives on ways forward for African livestock development are being explicitly – and implicitly – discussed? The paper focuses on three interlocking themes – markets, trade and standards; service delivery and organisational arrangements ; and science and technology priorities, examining both policy debates and field-level experiences from across Africa. The analysis suggests that, despite a common rhetorical commitment to poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor policy, there are tensions within the development strategies being proposed. Today’s primary policy focus is on livestock for trade and export – relating to a general concern to ‘modernise’ the sector, and boost production, requiring new approaches to bot h livestock production and management and the delivery of animal health care and veterinary services. Potentially, the paper argues, this comes at the expense of more simple initiatives to support productivity, breeding and disease management. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Project on Livestock Industrialization, Trade and Social-Health-Environment Impacts in Developing Countries
Policy, Technical, and Environmental Determinants and Implications of the Scaling-Up of Livestock Production in Four Fast-Growing Developing Countries: A Synthesis
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