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1.2 Sociological implications of intensifying animal production in developing countries: the case of the african pastoralists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

P. R. Baker
P. R. Baker
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School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR86BA.
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In the early part of the last decade the World Bank identified the livestock sector as the principal area for investment in several countries in Africa, upon which continent this paper concentrates. Since that time very considerable amounts of time and scarce development capital have been directed into improving and “modernising” the production and marketing of, particularly, cattle from the traditional sector. However, the success rate of projects has been extremely low, leading one writer to comment: “There are few fields of economic development characterized by greater or more destructive blunders than those involving attempts to improve the productivity of grazing lands and the animals depending on them” (Dasmann, Milton and Freeman, 1973).

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 4: Intensive Animal Production in Developing Countries , January 1981 , pp. 11 - 21
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1981

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