Sustainable development of smallholder crop-livestock farming in developing countries

4th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

农业科学;生态环境科学

Ates, S.^1 ; Cicek, H.^2 ; Bell, L.W.^3 ; Norman, H.C.^4 ; Mayberry, D.E.^5 ; Kassam, S.^6 ; Hannaway, D.B.^7 ; Louhaichi, M.^1,8

Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis

97333, United States^1

FiBL, Department of International Cooperation, Switzerland^2

CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, PO Box 102, Toowoomba

QLD

4350, Australia^3

CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Private Bag 5, Wembley

WA

6913, Australia^4

CSIRO Agriculture and Food, St Lucia

QLD

4067, Australia^5

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Cairo, Egypt^6

Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis

97333, United States^7

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan^8

关键词: Agricultural growths;    Agricultural productivity;    Economic development;    Environmental sustainability;    Livestock farming;    Low income countries;    Mixed farming systems;    Value chain systems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/142/1/012076/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/142/1/012076

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Meeting the growing demand for animal-sourced food, prompted by population growth and increases in average per-capita income in low-income countries, is a major challenge. Yet, it also presents significant potential for agricultural growth, economic development, and reduction of poverty in rural areas. The main constraints to livestock producers taking advantage of growing markets include; lack of forage and feed gaps, communal land tenure, limited access to land and water resources, weak institutions, poor infrastructure and environmental degradation. To improve rural livelihood and food security in smallholder crop-livestock farming systems, concurrent work is required to address issues regarding efficiency of production, risk within systems and development of whole value chain systems. This paper provides a review of several forage based-studies in tropical and non-tropical dry areas of the developing countries. A central tenet of this paper is that forages have an essential role in agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and livestock nutrition in smallholder mixed farming systems.