Topic

1. Application of knowledge gained. Described in 3 bullet points.

1. Livestock can indeed play a catalytic role in strengthening the assets that rural

households use to achieve their livelihood objectives, and in increasing the resilience of

families to external shocks. Yet the sector’s capacity to turn fast sectoral growth into

reduced poverty will vary depending on countries and production systems, and on a

combination of macroeconomic and microeconomic factors.

2. The size of the livestock sector in the economy, its growth rate, and the participation of

the poor in that growth; and on the micro side, on the capacity of producers to use their

livestock-related assets to generate income, the ability of workers to link to expanding

employment opportunities, and the possibility for consumers to benefit from more

competitive prices.

3. Multidimensional approach to ending poverty. Given the livestock sector’s expected

rapid growth, and the assumption that many of the poor rely on livestock for their

livelihoods, livestock’s positive contribution to poverty reduction has sometimes been

taken for granted.