INTRODUCTION: Livestock production and associated products offer substantial opportunities for economic growth and poverty reduction for rural households in Zambia. However, smallholder livestock producers are often characterized by low livestock market participation. Among the many reasons cited in the literature are producer remoteness from the main urban market centers and poor road infrastr...

The livestock production system is considered equally sensitive to climate change as that of core agriculture system and at the same time livestock itself is also contributing to the phenomenon. The present paper attempts to analyze the sensitivity of livestock productivity in rainfed regions to climatic variability, significance of climate change with respect to Indian livestock and mitigation...

Background: Companioned by economic development, a dietary shift toward higher meat consumption is seen in developing countries and transitional economies, where the demand for livestock production has been increasing in response to such a dietary shift. In the Asian Dryland Belt, approaches to meet this demand have focused on grazing intensification, cropland conversion for animal feed, and su...

This study was conducted at Eldebeibat area, in South Kordofan State, Sudan. The aim of this study was to assess the role of competition on rangelands’ utilization on occurrence of conflicts between land’s users in the semi-arid areas of Eldebeibat, Sudan. Two target questionnaires were designed to collect data from two groups of land users namely nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers that...

The better adaptation and mitigation options can help to curtail the effects of climate change on livestock performance. To reduce poverty promote sustainable development through production, favorable policies action-oriented research are urgently required address pertinent issue. For effective measures these should be scaled up policy. example, understanding farmers’ perceptions including them...

The livestock system is one of the most important characteristics agrarian economy; sector provides sustainability and stability to national economy by contributing farm energy food security. Climate change seen as a major threat survival many species, ecosystems production systems in parts world. Green house gases (GHG) are released atmosphere both natural sources anthropogenic (human related)...