09/12/2023
According to a recent report (Chen and Ravallion, 2008), in 2005 about 2.6 billion people in the developing world (48 percent of the total population) were surviving on less than US$2 per day and about 149 million farm households, mostly smallholders, kept livestock for the purpose of producing milk for selfconsumption or sale. Against this background, the current study set out to assess whether:
small-scale milk production can contribute to significantly reducing poverty and improving nutrition and food security; and
small-scale milk producers will be able to compete with large-scale, capital-intensive ‘high-tech’ dairy farming systems, such as those in the USA and other developed countries.
