Livestock Policy Discussion Paper No. 8

Livestock Policy Discussion Paper No. 3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF FREEDOM FROM LIVESTOCK DISEASE AND EXPORT PROMOTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Livestock Policy Discussion Paper No. 1 THE ‘LIVESTOCK REVOLUTION’ – IMPLICATIONS FOR SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY OF MILK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION IN KENYA

A Discussion-Decision Support Tool for Assessing Impacts of Policy Changes on the Poor

PREFACE Livestock is vital to the economies of many developing countries. Animals are a source of food, more specifically protein for human diets, income, employment and possibly foreign exchange. For low-income producers, livestock can serve as a store of wealth, provide draught power and organic fertilizer for crop production and a means of transport. Consumption of livestock and livestock pr...

IGAD Livestock Policy Initiative The Political Economy of Livestock Policy Among the Somalis

PREFACE This paper is part of a series of political economy Working Papers prepared for the InterGovernmental Authority on Development's Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI) and the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The purpose of these papers is to explore strategic political economy issues that would facilitate...

Policy challenges for livestock emissions abatement: lessons from New Zealand

Under the current framework embodied in the Kyoto Protocol and envisaged for future multilateral agreements, Annex I parties are obliged to limit their economy-wide GHG emissions and accept responsibility for exceeding their targets through various flexible mechanisms. The predominant sources of agricultural GHGs, which represent about 8% of total Annex I emissions, are methane and nitrous oxid...