Better knowledge of the options for improving market access for developing country producers, especially in the target groups, will improve policies in this regard. Developing countries are expected to accelerate growth in production of the high value commodities identified, to benefit from higher employment of rural resources, and to be able to alleviate poverty by pursuing the recommended policies and strategies. Some observers argue that an increased reliance on livestock will raise the price of cereals for the poor, add to pollution, and have deleterious public health effects. This study sought to demonstrate both these possible advantages and the likely dangers of severe environmental and public health problems in the livestock sector of developing countries. Furthermore it emphasized that the powerful structural forces propelling the revolution will continue and that the form the ensuing changes take in the future will be helpful or hurtful depending on policy choices made now.
Fish are also the fastest growing food export of developing countries.
Second, it seeks to analyze the key role in agricultural policy of aquaculture, the world's fastest growing food source. The analysis will seek to capture the complementarities and trade-offs between the growth of different types of fisheries and the rapid growth of crop and animal products in developing countries. Dealing with aquaculture as part of the larger fisheries sector is central to being able to project relative output prices for aquaculture products with respect to other major food categories. These syntheses will focus on the interface between aquaculture production on one side, and nutrition, food security, poverty alleviation, environment, public health, and technology issues on the other. The latter account for roughly 70 percent of the costs of production of hogs and chickens, which are the livestock commodities growing most rapidly in production.