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| Date: | Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:10:59 +0200 |
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A NEW PUBLICATION
Title: Conducting feed assessments
PDF can be downloaded from: http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3043e/i3043e.pdf
About the publication:
Accurate assessments of current and future supplies and demands for livestock feed are needed for national food security policy and planning, as well as for setting of environmentally sustainable stocking rates. Feed resources must be assessed and monitored to provide information for the development and implementation of policies that will contribute to the sustainable growth of national livestock sectors. Knowledge of forage biomass availabilities and distributions can assist pastoralists in determining whether to move, buy or sell animals, and assess the level of risk for decision-making. The assessments would enhance the development of optimal feeding strategies and thus food security, the ability to cope with emergency feed shortage situations, the ability to provide input data into country level food input-output analyses, and the capability to assess environmental impacts of livestock.
This document provides guidance and tools to countries and researchers in developing feed assessments at regional or national level. A set of recommended step-wise procedures is given for conducting national feed assessments, including procedures for planning, establishing, and updating a national feed assessment. Detailed case studies and descriptions of methodologies that have been implemented in a variety of countries world-wide have also been presented.
Harinder Makkar
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