| dc.description.abstract | Summary Development of the livestock industry and its role in poverty alleviation in
developing countries depends on how adaptive the production systems are to changing
global environmental and economic trends. This paper characterizes dairy production
systems in India, Tanzania, Kenya and Nicaragua, and describes the genetic and breeding
technologies that hold promise for the advancement of global development goals. The dairy
value chain has been prioritized for development under the CGIAR research programme on
Livestock and Fish in Tanzania (East Africa), India (South Asia) and Nicaragua (Latin
America), while ILRI is involved in research on dairy development in Kenya. In all the
countries, a large number of smallholder farmers operating mixed crop–livestock production
systems play a significant role in dairy production. In Tanzania, Kenya and Nicaragua … | en_US |
