Describes eight examples of marketing of livestock products (wool, cashmere, milk, meat and hides) from local breeds of Bactrian camels, dromedaries, goats and sheep in seven countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It shows how they have kept local breeds in use, while enabling the small-scale livestock keepers and pastoralists who raise them to improve their livelihoods.
ISBN: | 9789251064535 |
Publication date: | 30th July 2010 |
Author: | Evelyn Mathias, Paul Mundy, League for Pastoral Peoples |
Publisher: | Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations an imprint of Food & Agriculture Organization |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 142 pages |
Series: | FAO Animal Production and Health Paper |
Genres: |
Smallholdings |