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Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems

Published:2010-02-12 Issue:5967 Volume:327 Page:822-825
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Herrero M.¹,Thornton P. K.¹,Notenbaert A. M.¹,Wood S.²,Msangi S.²,Freeman H. A.³,Bossio D.⁴,Dixon J.⁵,Peters M.⁶,van de Steeg J.¹,Lynam J.⁷,Rao P. Parthasarathy⁸,Macmillan S.¹,Gerard B.⁹,McDermott J.¹,Seré C.¹,Rosegrant M.²

Affiliation:

1. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Post Office Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya.

2. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2033 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA.

3. International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC 20433, USA.

4. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

5. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

6. Centro Internacional de Agricultural Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia.

7. Independent consultant, Nairobi, Kenya.

8. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.

9. CGIAR System-wide Livestock Programme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Abstract

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. Animals act as insurance against hard times and supply farmers with a source of regular income from sales of milk, eggs, and other products. Thus, faced with population growth and climate change, small-holder farmers should be the first target for policies to intensify production by carefully managed inputs of fertilizer, water, and feed to minimize waste and environmental impact, supported by improved access to markets, new varieties, and technologies.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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