Participatory Livestock Research: A guide by Czech Conroy (English) Paperback Bo

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This book is intended to help livestock researchers and practitioners to overcome the potential difficulties associated with participatory livestock research and is aimed at: livestock and rangeland researchers; extensionists and practitioners of livestock development (in livestock service agencies and NGOs).

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This book is the first to offer an introduction to participatory research for livestock development. Despite the attention paid to participatory research methodologies in other areas of agricultural development, participatory livestock work has been relatively neglected despite the evident relevance of and demand for such approaches. This book will bring livestock researchers and practitioners up to date with the latest and best practice in participatory research. Participatory Livestock Research will help researchers and practitioners to overcome the potential difficulties associated with participatory livestock research. The book shows how a participatory approach to technology development can be successful. It also shows how to undertake needs assessment using participatory approaches, and how to avoid the problems associated with on-farm livestock experiments.Participatory Livestock Research is essential reading for all those involved in livestock research and will be also be of interest to workers and researchers interested in wider agricultural development issues in universities, national agricultural research systems and NGOs, and extension workers and practitioners in agricultural service agencies.

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'This guide fills a serious gap, ... a treasury of practical ideas and good advice ... it should be on the desks of all who are engaged on research to serve small-scale livestock producers in developing countries.' Prof. Robert Chambers, IDS '... a comprehensive and unique guide, ... it should be read - and used - by livestock professionals worldwide.' Prof. Dr. Gordon Conway, President, Rockefeller Foundation 'A timely and extremely valuable guide ... Should be of interest to researchers all over the world.' Prof. Jules Pretty, Head of Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex '... clearly laid out, ... rich case studies ... a very useful guide ...' Ann Waters-Bayer, ETC Ecoculture, and Wolfgang Bayer, Independent Advisor in Livestock Systems Development '... an essential guide, ... well written.' Dr. C. Devendra, Consulting Animal Production Systems Specialist 'an excellent contribution to livestock development worldwide.' Peter Horne, Agronomist and Team Leader, Lao-CIAT Forages and Livestock Systems Project

Author Biography

Czech Conroy is Reader in Rural Livelihoods at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. He has worked in various countries in Asia and Africa, and has done livestock-related work in India, Indonesia and Oman.

Table of Contents

Prelims (Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Boxes, Acknowledgements, List of Acronyms) 1. Introduction: Why livestock is important to resource-poor people PART I - PARTICIPATORY SITUATION ANALYSIS 2. General aspects of participatory situation analysis 3. Getting an overview of livestock-keeping; Feeding systems and resources 4. Animal health; Analysis of constraints, problems and opportunities PART II - PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 5. When to do participatory trials 6. Getting started; Designing trials and experiments 7. Monitoring and evaluation of experiments 8. Achieving wider impact PART III - CASE STUDIES 9. Case study A: Learning about the control of Newcastle disease with village chicken farmers in Mozambique 10. Case study B: Participatory development of mange treatment technology in Kenya 11. Case study C: Participatory validation of medicinal plants for livestock diseases of pastoralists in Kenya 12. Case study D: Improving the efficacy of concentrate usage by smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya 13. Case study E: Tree pods as a supplement to improve the productivity of female goats in India 14. Case study F: Women, livestock and innovation: campesino experimentation in Mexico 15. Case study G: Adoption and scaling up - experiences of the Forages for Smallholders Project in South-east Asia 16. Case study H: Development of herbaceous forage legume technologies in central Kenya 17. Case study I: Development of the Kebkabiya donkey plough in Western Sudan 18. Case study J: Tzotzil shepherdesses and Chiapas wool sheep, Mexico PART IV - CONCLUSIONS 19. Maximizing the contribution of participatory livestock research Back Matter (Appendix: Internet-based livestock and development information sources, List of contributors, References, Index)

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'This guide fills a serious gap, ... a treasury of practical ideas and good advice ... it should be on the desks of all who are engaged on research to serve small-scale livestock producers in developing countries.' Prof. Robert Chambers, IDS '... a comprehensive and unique guide, ... it should be read - and used - by livestock professionals worldwide.' Prof. Dr. Gordon Conway, President, Rockefeller Foundation 'A timely and extremely valuable guide ... Should be of interest to researchers all over the world.' Prof. Jules Pretty, Head of Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex '... clearly laid out, ... rich case studies ... a very useful guide ...' Ann Waters-Bayer, ETC Ecoculture, and Wolfgang Bayer, Independent Advisor in Livestock Systems Development '... an essential guide, ... well written.' Dr. C. Devendra, Consulting Animal Production Systems Specialist 'an excellent contribution to livestock development worldwide.' Peter Horne, Agronomist and Team Leader, Lao-CIAT Forages and Livestock Systems Project

Long Description

* provides guidance on how to take a participatory approach to needs assessment * shows how to conduct participatory technology development while avoiding or minimizing problems associated with on-farm livestock experiments illustrates how a participatory approach to technology development can be applied effectively, drawing on the experiences of a wide range of successful projects Livestock research and development work has tended to lag behind crop production work in the development and application of methods for participatory technology development. However, the case for participatory research is just as strong in relation to livestock as it is in relation to crops; and there has been increasing recognition that livestock research needs to give greater emphasis to farmer participation. This book is intended to help livestock researchers and practitioners to overcome the potential difficulties associated with participatory livestock research. The book is aimed at: livestock and rangeland researchers (in national agricultural research systems, universities and NGOs); extensionists and practitioners of livestock development (in livestock service agencies and NGOs).

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Livestock research and development work has tended to lag behind crop production work in the development and application of methods for participatory technology development. However, the case for participatory research is just as strong in relation to livestock as it is in relation to crops; and there has been increasing recognition that livestock research needs to give greater emphasis to farmer participation. This book is intended to help livestock researchers and practitioners to overcome the potential difficulties associated with participatory livestock research.

Details ISBN1853395773 Author Czech Conroy Short Title PARTICIPATORY LIVESTOCK RESEAR Language English ISBN-10 1853395773 ISBN-13 9781853395772 Media Book Format Paperback Country of Publication United Kingdom DOI 10.3362/9781780440316 Subtitle A guide UK Release Date 2005-12-15 AU Release Date 2005-12-15 NZ Release Date 2005-12-15 Pages 320 Year 2005 Publication Date 2005-12-15 DEWEY 636.0072 Illustrations 2 Line drawings, black and white Audience Undergraduate Publisher Practical Action Publishing Imprint Practical Action Publishing Place of Publication Rugby We've got this

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