Enhancing Animal Welfare and Farmer Income Through Strategic Animal Feeding - Some Case Studies
Subtitle: FAO Animal Production and Health Paper No 175
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9789251074527
Subjects: Animal nutrition; Animal welfare; Farm income; Livestock
Description: " ... At the Expert Consultation held at FAO headquarters in Rome in September 2011, participants called for a series of case studies to document existing practices that enhance animal welfare as well as farmers' incomes; currently, such studies are few and far between. This document presents a number of such studies and it is hoped that the information they contain will encourage researchers and agencies working in the area of animal welfare to initiate studies to capture the impact of any intervention on farmers' incomes - an area that has been neglected to date. It is also envisaged that these studies could pave the way for developing guidelines and policy options to promote sustainable animal feeding that enhances animal welfare, animal productivity, animal product quality and profitability."--Preface.