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The Livestock revolution/implications – an African view

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

D. Miano Mwangi  and
A. Omore
D. Miano Mwangi
Affiliation:
Kenya Agricultural Research InstituteP.O. Box 30148 Nairobi, Kenya
A. Omore
Affiliation:
Kenya Agricultural Research InstituteP.O. Box 30148 Nairobi, Kenya International Livestock Research InstituteP.O. Box 30709 Nairobi, Kenya
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The rapid increase in the production and consumption of livestock and livestock products fuelled by population growth, urbanisation and increase in average per capita income has come to be known as the livestock revolution (Delgado et al 1999). A rapid growth in per capita consumption of livestock products in developing countries over the last decade (FOASTAT, 2002)

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2003 , 2003 , pp. 243 - 244
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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