Evolution of livestock systems in Africa facing changes

Tables 5 and 6 give the calculated data com- piled to assess the sustainability of the family farms based on indicators related to the degree of diversification and integration (

Under such conditions, the sheep population fell from 18 million to 12 million head, 

Changes in the practice of storing forage crop residues (a), forage crops (b) according to the classes of mixed crop-livestock farming systems (see Table 1.1)...

This paper aims to compare different pasture-based livestock systems: the smallholder mixed dairy-beef livestock system based essentially on self-consumption, with

We identified two main trends and five archetypical systems: a centrifugal trend of specialization, toward cash crop (1) or dairy herd (2) in favourable areas,

Stratification of livestock systems, under which drier zones produce feeder animals that can then be fattened in the higher-rainfall and therefore less drought-prone highlands of

(2013) calculates at pixel and aggregate level: (i) data on crop byproducts and crop residues’ usability; (ii) livestock rations for the different types of animals and

is  characterised  by  a  huge  development  of  economical  functions  (exports),  balanced  by  a  strong  environmental  degradation  and  large  increases  in