Tropical forages for monogastric animals: enhancing smallholders competitiveness in local and emerging markets

摘要：

Market changes provide opportunities and create challenges for smallholder producers.Throughout the world, consumer demand for livestock products is rapidly increasing, with pork and poultry dominating the changes.Meanwhile, higher costs of grain‐based concentrate feeds, partly caused by biofuel production, are affecting the competitiveness of livestock producers (World Bank,2007 ).Although purchased animal feeds could enable farmers to expand production, household funds of smallholders are typically insufficient, or feed is expensive, distant, or simply unavailable.Women and children, who have an important role in small‐scale monogastric production (e.g.fewer than 20 chickens or 3 pigs),are most likely to benefit from enhancing feed production capacity on‐farm.

关键词： monogastric animals emerging markets high value products tropical forage legumes

作者: M.Peters A.Schmidt M.Mena S.Fujisaka D.White L.S.Munoz P.Sarria N.Vivas F.Holmann M.Lundy T.Oberthur P.Lentes

作者单位: Centro Internacionalde Agricultura Tropical(CIA T ),A.A.6713,Cali,Colombia Instituto N icaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria(INTA ),Managua,Nicaragua Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Sede Palmira,Palmira,Colombia Universidad del Cauca,Popayán,Colombia

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）