"This book argues for a people-focused approach to livestock development, giving high priority to the public goods aspects of poverty reduction, environmental sustainability, food security and safety, and animal welfare. It outlines the primary policy/technology framework for the main production systems and concludes with an eleven point Action Plan for the sector."
"Sustainable Natural Resource Use in Arid Africa and the Middle East David John
Pratt, François Le Gall, C. de Haan ... It is envisioned that the credit will have a
value expressed in livestock units rather than cash. ... any facilities needed for
handling animals acquired or for ensuring a supply of replacement stock; • the
differential between the resale or carcass value of animals acquired and those to
be bought as replacements; ..."
"... Galton-Watson process suitably rescaled will converge to a CSBP with p(u)=
Bu”. Under a mild assumption on p, we can for every n sufficiently large define
the law of the Galton-Watson tree with offspring distribution pu, conditioned to
have a total population equal to n. Aldous [Al3] proved that, provided that we
rescale the lengths of the branches C by the factor Vo (for a suitable choice of c >
0), these conditioned trees con ..."