Crop-livestock systems are of vital importance to the livelihoods and food security of smallholder farmers throughout the developing countries of the world. Projected consumption trends indicate that demand for meat and milk will more than double in the developing countries over the next 20 years. These trends present a demand-led opportunity for very large number of smallholders to improve their livelihoods through market-oriented production based on judicious management of natural resources. If these market-driven opportunities are to be fully exploited by smallholder crop-livestock farmers, publicly funded research and development institutions need to come up with new ideas and partnership arrangements that will enable them to become more effective and better positioned to serve the interests of poor farmers. [more]

Co-seminar organised in collaboration with: ILRI; IITA; ICRISAT; WARDA; CIRDES (Burkina Faso).