strategy
Improving animal production
Synonyms:
Increasing animal productivityRaising animal production output
Context:
In 1993, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ran several projects to improve local animal production systems. In Benin, FAO conducted a snail raising programme that involved teaching farmers snail management techniques, housing, feeding and processing. In a similar endeavour, an ostrich production and marketing specialist helped the government of Namibia to assess domestic and export market potential and constraints for ostriches and their products. Broader:
ImprovingImproving productivityImproving food self-sufficiencyApplying technologies for improved food production Narrower:
Expanding small animal productsExpanding saleable animal productsEstablishing animal protein productionIncreasing productivity of draught animal power Constrained by:
Abstaining from productivity in farm animalsProhibiting trade in animal products of endangered species Facilitates:
Reducing surplus domestic animal productionDistributing surplus domestic animal production Facilitated by:
Controlling animal diseasesTesting animal health productsRegionalizing animal productionEnsuring farm animal productivity Problems:
Environmental hazards from undressed hides, skins and fur skinsIndiscriminate slaughter of animals for pelts
Instability of trade in dressed fur skins
Instability of trade in undressed hides and non-fur skins
Instability of trade in undressed hides, skins and fur skins
Loss of animal productivity
Shortage of leather, miscellaneous leather manufactures and dressed fur skins
Skins and fur skins shortage
Organizations:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO Regional Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific Subjects:
Zoology → AnimalsIndustry → Production
Economics → Productivity
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
