The effect of remittances on capital accumulation remains a contested topic. This paper uses a panel data set from rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a significantly positive effect...

INTRODUCTION One of the major challenges faced by the livestock sub-sector in Tanzania is how to utilize opportunities available from the ongoing socio-economic reforms to enable the sub-sector to become one of the major contributors to the national GDP. This is because livestock production is one of the major agricultural activities in Tanzania. As a major local income assuror, the livestock s...

Ongoing intensification and specialisation of livestock production lead to increasing volumes of manure to be managed, which are a source of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). Net emissions of CH4 and N2O result from a multitude of microbial activities in the manure environment. Their relative importance depends not only on manure composition and local management...

The importance of women in livestock production is though widely acclaimed, the issues relating to their control over income from livestock activities and its outcomes on children’s health, nutrition and education have not received much attention in the empirical literature. This paper assesses the role of livestock in improving women’s bargaining power in intra-household resource allocation an...

To characterise the urban livestock keeping practices and constraints in Kisumu municipality, Kenya, a questionnaire survey was carried out. Thirty-four contact farmers were interviewed on general farm characteristics and production constraints. The farming activities were categorised as either livestock only (41%), or mixed crops and livestock (59%). The surveyed farmers kept mainly cattle (10...

in iran, more than 96.4 percent of dairy farms (including more than 68.7 percent of cattle and calf) have a less than 20 heads of animals, and they produce more than two-thirds of milk and most of animal protein. also, large shares of water, land and labor force resources are used by this production section. less scientific studies have been focused on this production system despite it's m...

Livestock production for human consumption is growing dramatically as developing nations increasingly eat meat. But the production of such animals adds to greenhouse gas emissions and takes up biomass production that could otherwise enter the human food chain directly. have calculated the possible impacts of livestock production between 2000 and 2050 in a new report in the Proceedings of the Na...

Livestock manures are an important resource in sustainable and organic crop production. This publication addresses the problems and challenges of using both raw and composted manures and discusses some of the solutions. It also deals with guano, a similar material. Manures for Organic