Livestock
Livestock output key
to rural agriculture activity
LIVESTOCK production can be a key to
power, serve as an indication of one's
food produced in terms of inputs such as
communal agricultural activity and a
wealth status and provision of meat
land and water). With animal protein set
sustainable source of rural livelihood if
and hides as terminal products.
to remain part of the food supply, we
smallholder farmers focus on improving
With improved breeding and
must pursue sustainable intensification
the health and management of their
cultivation, ruminant animals can yield
and figure out how to keep livestock in
animals.
food that is better for people and the
ways that work best for individuals,
The most prominent constraint in small-
planet.
communities and the planet.
scale livestock farming includes disease
When animals are fed a low quality
Mismanagement and poor welfare
and pest control and the quantity and
rations and are not protected from
render animals particularly susceptible
quality of feed offered to the animals.
disease, genetic traits for survival are
to parasites and disease. Many young
Smallholder farmers often experience
more important than those for
animals die of d