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I am Loupa Pius once again from Uganda, Karamoja Region.

I will always refer my comments in regards to livestock production and some basics of the crop producer. Looking at the world food security status, I agree with Phelix Oyath (Message 15) and Mahesh Chander (Messages 9, 16). First off, I am literally from Karamoja where more people are shifting from crop farming to their native practice of livestock production (cattle keeping) large herd pastoralism. To my own understanding of the contribution of small farms to world food security and nutrition, I make a focus onto the practice itself. The small farms are rural based in Uganda as a country. And when they are rural based, they produce a multiple of products (various crops types) which are useful to the urban peripherals. They feed the whole rural community with all nutritive food products. 

Looking at the production cost in the small farms, they would be labour intensive. We should understand that they are not just produced for intensive marketing. They produce for household upkeep and some produce, if more is realized, can be sold to the local markets not to international markets which may result in high cost of  business executions where they will face new challenges of marketing. Remember the food product produced in Sub-saharan Africa local commodity food markets are not from commercial farmers. It's from small farmers who substantially produce for household upkeep. 

Looking at the livestock economy and small farms (crop farms), many livestock products available in rural markets are not produce/products of commercial livestock keepers. Let's remember that many rural livestock keepers are pastoralists and own large number of herds, and occasionally offer this for marketing in the form of live animals. But other animal products which are highly nutritious like milk, butter and other useful services which support the ecological environment for crop production are also enhanced by livestock. 

Loupa Pius 
Project Officer
Conservation Agriculture Project -Kaabong
Dodoth Agro-pastoralist Development Organization (DADO-Kaabong)
P.O. BOX, 25 Kotido, Kaabong Kidepo Road
Uganda
+256784616870 | +0758382922
E-mail: daahman89(at)gmail.com, loupadado.org(at)gmail.com

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