Assessment of Livestock Sustainability in Developing Countries

Zusatztext

The book discusses and covers meaning, definition of sustainable development and sustainability of agriculture and livestock production system, issues of agriculture and livestock sustainability in developing countries, an overview of approaches used by different authors, data requirement and sources of data for sustainability assessment at macro and micro level, different tools of sustainability assessment viz. Total Factor Productivity, Sustainable Livestock Production Index, Sustainable Dairy Farming Index along covering all the three dimensions of sustainability viz. economic, social and environmental. The book also defines the suitable indicators to cover all the three dimensions objectively. Factors which affects the sustainability of dairy farming has also covered in the book. The policies, recommendations have discussed at the end of the book to improve the livestock sustainability.

Autorenportrait

Dr. Prem Chand is Doctorate in Dairy Economics from NDRI Karnal, India. He is having more than 5 years of research, teaching and monitoring experience in the field of agricultural sustainability & impact assessment and agribusiness management. He has 15 research/review/popular articles and one book in his credit. Currently he scientist in ICAR

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