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WOMEN, LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP AND MARKETS
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The capacity of livestock systems to provide protein-rich food to billions of
smallholder rural food producers and urban consumers, generate income and
employment, reduce vulnerabilities in pastoral systems, intensify small-scale mixed
crop-livestock systems and sustain livelihood opportunities to millions of livestock
keepers (ILRI 2012) makes them an appealing vehicle for pro-poor development.
Increased consumption of livestock products, particularly in the fast-growing
economies of the developing world, has been an important determinant of rising
prices for meat and milk (Delgado et al. 1999; Delgado 2003). These price surges
provide new incentives and opportunities for using livestock as an instrument to
help poor people escape poverty due to the multiple benefi ts that they offer and the
multiple roles that they play in different production systems (Rangnekar 1998;
Aklilu et al. 2008).
Livestock provide income, create employment opportunities and provide food
and nutrition security across different production systems and along different value
chains. As poor livestock-keeping households tend to be net sellers of livestock
products, they benefi t from rising livestock prices. Moreover, vulnerable groups,
particularly women and the landless, frequently engage in livestock production,
thus highlighting the multifaceted virtues of livestock promotion as a pathway
out of poverty (Heffernan and Misturelli 2000). Livestock provide a safety net,
helping keep poor households from falling into poverty. They are often the only
asset women can own/control and can be sold to meet emergency and family
health needs.
Livestock also play important roles in securing household food security. This
happens through various pathways: (i) in times of food shortages, households sell
livestock to purchase other food such as cereals and legumes
Jemimah Njuki and Pascal C. Sanginga - Personal Name
1st Edition
978-1-55250-554-0)
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WOMEN, LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP AND MARKETS
Makerting
English
Routledge
2013
New York
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