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Food Markets and Poverty Alleviation

Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock

Year of publication 2008

Pages 6p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) Research Report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Despite global progress in poverty reduction, around 2.5 billion people still have to make a living on less than $2/day. Most of these poor live in rural areas and agriculture forms an important component of their livelihoods. This paper provides a synoptic global overview of the distribution of purchasing power, expenditure on various food items, poverty, and livestock, which, although crude, clearly demonstrates, that domestic food markets could act as powerful catalysts for poverty reduction, provided the appropriate policy and institutional environments are in place. Public actions should overcome current policy and market failures and link small-scale producers with suppliers of critical inputs and buyers in urban markets, and enable rural producers to understand and satisfy the product, process and delivery standards expected by the increasing number of urban ‘middle-class’ consumers.

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