This unique book is the product of a south/north, east/west collaboration, involving some 90 contributors from 25 countries. It will be invaluable to all concerned with livestock keeping and poverty alleviation in developing countries, especially those working with resource-poor livestock keepers.

Livestock and Wealth Creation is about the role of livestock in developing countries and portrays how improved husbandry practices can affect the livelihoods of livestock keepers. It emphasises ways of improving small-scale enterprises and subsistence livestock-keeping.

Contents

1. Introduction - the need to change the 'mind set'
2. Why keep livestock if you are poor?
3. Livestock systems
4. The livestock and poverty assessment methodology
5. Livestock development and poverty
6. Knowledge - key to empowerment
7. Livestock products - valuable and more valuable\
8. Marketing to promote trade and development
9. Livestock and the environment
10. Animal response to nutrient supply
11. Feeds and feeding to improve productivity and survival
12. Breeding strategies for sustainable improvement
13. Improving the health of livestock kept by the resource-poor in developing countries
14. Apiculture
15. Giant African snails
16. Poultry
17. Grasscutters, guinea pigs and rabbits
18. Pigs
19. Goats
20. Sheep
21. African camels and South American camelids
22. Cattle
23. Buffalo
24. Yak
25. Equines
26. Wildlife
27. Lessons learned and the way ahead

DFID LPP projects
Index

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