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Livestock and the poor: issues in poverty-focused livestock development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

C. Heffernan
C. Heffernan*
Affiliation:
Livestock Development Group, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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Over the course of the last decade, the fight against global poverty has galvanised the world community. Development projects and programmes are increasingly justified and funded solely on their potential to aid the poor. Equally, the lessons learned from previous drives to eradicate poverty appear to have been taken on board. It has been recognised that to lower poverty levels, it is first imperative to understand the lives and livelihoods of the poor. Therefore, current approaches generally focus upon the multitude of activities that poor households pursue. Animal husbandry is one such activity. Indeed, it has been estimated that at least one third of the poor rear livestock (LID, 1999). Therefore, livestock keepers are one of the largest subsets of the global community of the poor.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 33: Responding to the Livestock Revolution , 2004 , pp. 229 - 245
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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