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No results found.Animal diseases, especially Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs), affect animal productivity, human welfare, and the economy. TAD outbreaks can have significant economic impacts at various levels, with costs borne by governments, industries, and small producers. Understanding these costs helps prioritize resources and evaluate control strategies. The OutCosT tool is designed to assess the direct costs of avian diseases, such as avian influenza and Newcastle disease, though it doesn’t account for indirect costs like global trade or human health. This manual guides users on how to use OutCosT to evaluate epidemic costs and control measures. -
GuidelineDecision tools for family poultry development 2014
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No results found.Family poultry encompasses all small-scale poultry production systems found in rural, urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries. Rather than defining the production systems per se, the term is used to describe poultry production practised by individual families as a means of obtaining food security, income and gainful employment. Family poultry production is often perceived as an activity that can easily and quickly generate income and support food security for resource-poor households. However, the essential requirements for the efficient production of healthy and profitable poultry and eggs are frequently inadequately understood by those designing projects for resource-poor settings. This publication provides guidance for personnel in governments, development organizations and NGOs to better determine and plan development interventions for family poultry. The decision tools address the situation of four distinct family poultry production systems and their development opportunities: small extensive scavenging, extensive scavenging, semi-intensive production and small-scale intensive production. They describe the poultry production systems, including their required inputs and expected outputs and the techniques and tools used to assess the operational environment, in order to design interventions suited to the local conditions. Practical technical information are provided about genetics and reproduction, feeds and feeding, poultr y health, housing, marketing and value chain development, microfinance and credit, institutional development, training and extension, and creating an enabling policy. Guidance is then provided on how to utilize this relevant information to design and develop projects targeted at specific conditions. -
Technical reportPro-Poor Livestock: PolicyReview of Household Poultry Production as a Tool in Poverty Reduction with Focus on Bangladesh and India PPLPI Working 2003
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No results found.This is the sixth of a series of “Working Papers” prepared for the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI). The purpose of these papers is to explore issues related to livestock development in the context of poverty alleviation. Livestock is vital to the economies of many developing countries. Animals are a source of food, more specifically protein for human diets, income, employment and possibly foreign exchange. For low income producers, livestock can serve as a store of wealth, provide d raught power and organic fertiliser for crop production and a means of transport. Consumption of livestock and livestock products in developing countries, though starting from a low base, is growing rapidly.
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