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 farmers. This paper analyses the impact of the...

Gender roles in livestock production, processing and marketing and child nutrition is reviewed based on published and unpublished literature.

A survey was conducted of 982 indigenous households in Southern Nigeria between October 1988 and March 1989. Results show that 70 percent of the sample households consumed some dairy products. Consumption prevalence and regularity of consumption of local products was higher around the points of...

Summarises the findings of a seroes of case studies in Asia and Africa on demand for quality and safety in animal products, criteria people use in determining quality and safety, and how they value them in the market.