Socio-economic constraints on camel production in Pakistan’s extensive pastoral farming

Recognising European pastoral farming systems

Constraints under organic farming on French sheepmeat production: a legal and economic point of view with an emphasis on farming systems and veterinary aspects.

Ovine meat production in France, which is continually regressing due to economic difficulties, is based on two main production systems. The first system is located in plains in which one part of the lambs born in the spring are fed grass, and the other part of the lambs are from out of the season parturitions following hormonal treatments and are fattened in sheep houses. The second system is r...

The socio-economic impact of important camel diseases as perceived by a pastoralist community in Kenya.

This paper presents the results of a study conducted in a pastoral community in Kenya using participatory appraisal approaches. The objective of the study was to assess the socio-economic impact of camel trypanosomosis (surra) according to the perceptions of the pastoralists. Four livestock grazing units were conveniently selected and in each of them, three groups of key informants comprising f...

Economic Constraints On Food Production From The Sea

That marine ecological systems are tremendously productive of plant and animal life is an established fact. In assessing the potential for food production from the sea, however, marine scientists have produced quite a range of “estimates” of the sea’s productivity. In 1965 Schaefer (1) conservatively estimated that the world fishery production could be increased to 200 million tons “with no rad...

Assessing the Rise of Organic Farming in the European Union: Environmental and Socio-economic Consequences

Although organic farming is considered the poster child of rural development in Europe, there is little empirical evidence assessing its success in achieving the ambitious environmental and socio-economic objectives that it is purported to assist. This paper presents empirical evidence from the growth of organic farming in Europe over the past two decades that questions the highly optimistic cl...