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Featured Resources UN Livestock Report 2006The livestock sector is undergoing rapid changes in response to pressures from globalization and rapidly growing demand for animal food products in developing countries. The centre of gravity of livestock production is moving South, and a few developing countries are emerging as powerful new players on the global scene. 91 pg. report. Why Livestock Matter Featured Organizations Send A Cow We work with people in Africa to overcome poverty and malnutrition in a sustainable manner through the development of animal production and through groups capable of managing their own future.
International Livestock Research Institute's mission is to work at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality science and capacity-building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development for poor livestock keepers and their communities. |
Did You Know? photo source "The fight against poverty starts with rational use of available natural resources. Among those most readily available to the world's poor are farm animals. One-third of the world's 6 billion people depend on animals daily. Of the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty, 80% live in rural areas and of these, two-thirds—some 678 million poor—keep livestock." - International Livestock Research Institute
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