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Poverty and Livestock Agriculture

Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock









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    Agricultural growth and poverty reduction – the rapidly increasing role of smallholder livestock
    International Workshop on “Livestock and Livelihoods: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia in the Emerging Market Environment”
    2003
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    The smallholder livestock sector is not playing its full role in employment growth and poverty reduction because governments are not diagnosing the critical needs for public goods to complement private activities and ensuring that the critical needs are met. The loss in welfare from this neglect is immense.
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    Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock. Pathways out of Poverty in Western Kenya and the Role of Livestock
    Analytical Tools EASYPol Module 197. PPLPI Working Paper 14
    2004
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    This is the fourteenth 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. A community-based methodology called the ‘stages of progress’ approach was used to assess household poverty dynamics in 20 communities and for over 1,700 households representing two different ethnic groups in Western Kenya. The objectives of the study were to o btain a better understanding of households’ pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities’ own perspective. The proportion of households that have managed to escape poverty over the last 25 years was ascertained, as well as the proportion of households that have fallen into poverty during the same period. The major reasons for movements into or out of poverty were elicited at both the community and household-level, and in particular, the role that livestock play in the different pathways was examined.
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    Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: Dynamic Poverty Processes and the Role of Livestock in Peru 2007
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    This is the 39th 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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