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Livestock rearing — key to poverty reduction strategies
Gavin Wall
From equity and livelihood perspectives, livestock rearing must be at the centre stage of poverty alleviation programmes.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture: A developing country perspective
This document contains the presentation made by Umesh Babu at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Institute for Social and Economic Change
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Wolf Wars
Packs are making a comeback. That’s a thrill for wildlife lovers. But wolves are still wolves, killing cattle and elk. Many Westerners are angry. And so, the age-old fight over land and food has begun anew.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- National Geographic pp: 1-6
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Chewing the cud could sink the planet!
Pallavi Aiyar / Brussels February 19, 2010, 0:15 IST
At the United Nations climate change meet in Copenhagen last December, some of the most visible NGO campaigners milling around outside the conference venue were dressed as large, furry animals. As they distributed vegan sandwiches to all who would accept them, their message was simple: “Less meat means less heat.”
- Date:
- 19/02/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Climate change impacts on livestock production and adaptation strategies: a global scenario
Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have released a paper titled “Climate change impacts on livestock production and adaptation strategies: A global scenario.” The paper was presented at the National Symposium on Climate Change and Rainfed Agriculture, which convened from 18-
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- ICRISAT
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Smart investments in sustainable food production: Revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems
Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Science Vol: 327 Issue: 5967 pp: 822-825
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Vet scientists awarded for research on buffaloes
Ludhiana: More than 350 delegates from various countries, including the USA, Australia, Italy and Brazil, attended the “International Buffalo Conference on Optimising Buffalo Productivity Through Conventional and Novel Technologies” at the National Agriculture Science Complex, New Delhi.
The conference was held from February 1 to 4.
- Date:
- 09/02/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Distress sale of animals due to feed scarcity
JAIPUR: Climate change is likely to have an impact on the population of sheep and goats in the country. The feed and fodder scarcity is forcing the sheep farmers to resort to distress sale of animals which in turn is resulting in low economic realisation.
- Date:
- 03/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Adopt precision farming
Telling the farming community to make use of weather forecast and precision farming, Prof Anwar Alam, Vice-Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology- Kashmir (SKUAST-K), today said the same could be used to reduce loss in agriculture.
- Date:
- 02/02/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Livestock output, says Plan panel
THE Planning Commission has said that the government needs to work towards increasing the rate of growth of livestock production, which has not been “as high as we would like it to be”, even as it made light of the on-going debate on whether there is a milkcrisis looming in the near future.
- Date:
- 22/01/2010
- Source:
- Economic Times (New Delhi)
