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The forecast doubling of demand for livestock products by 2020 is both a threat and an opportunity for poor livestock keepers, and represents a challenge for devising livestock policies that benefit the poor.

This paper examines whether the concept of endogenous development holds promise for pro-poor livestock development. Endogenous livestock development would mean building on local resources, including knowledge, institutions, fodder, and animal genetic resources. The paper concludes that following in the tracks of Northern livestock development may be disastrous for developing countries that cannot absorb rural poor into the urban labour force.

Discussion paper (23 pages) by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, 2007.

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