integral part of mixed crops-livestock farming systems where a farm household owns one to two dairy animals along with other … four regions in the Hindu Kush Himalaya has demonstrated the fact that promotion of market oriented smallholder dairy … conserving the fragile ecosystem. In the region, smallholder dairy farming is not a specialized enterprise, rather it is an …

credit on smallholder dairy farms in the East African highlands using farm level data from Ethiopia and Kenya. Farmers were … output per farm was explained by the number of crossbred milking cows in the dairy herd. Because credit is likely to … facilitate investment in crossbred dairy cows it will have substantial impacts on smallholder dairy farms especially if it is …

broiler, layer and dairy farms in Bangladesh and their implications for poverty alleviation. …

Previous farm-level studies have shown that adopting improved feeding and management strategies improves livestock … productivity and, in particular, increases the milk production and income of resource poor smallholder mixed-crop and livestock …, the analysis indicates a positive relationship between household income and adoption of the improved dairy technologies …

Ethiopia has a large livestock population that performs multiple functions and contributes to food security both … reasons, one of the important reason lies in the problems associated with domestic and international marketing of livestock …. Current knowledge on livestock market structure, performance and prices is poor and inadequate for designing policies and …

This report presents finding of a rapid appraisal of institutions supporting livestock trade and marketing in Somalia … supporting livestock trade and marketing in Somalia; evaluated the roles played by each organisation, identifi ed the rules and … organisations effectively perform their roles in improving livestock trade and marketing in Somalia. Emphasis was put on …

do not have sufficient funds to meet the demand for livestock credit and cannot mobilize savings from their clients or … improved dairy technology, it is shown that not all borrowers borrowed due to liquidity constraint while some borrowers and … that sex and education of the household head, training in dairy, prevalence of outstanding loan and the number of improved …