Sustainable livestock systems

In parallel with CTLGH’s joint programs and projects, affiliated researchers are studying animal husbandry practices, farmer-preferred traits and overall profitability models in tropical livestock systems, in order to understand what gaps in knowledge and infrastructure need to be closed before our vision of Improved livestock-based livelihoods in the tropics can be realised.

Further reading

• The potential of small ruminant farming as a means of poverty alleviation in rural southern India
• The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens
• Farmer-preferred traits in smallholder dairy farming systems in Tanzania