Livestock: the neglected food security factor

A blog post published on 15 September 2015 on the Global Donor Platfrom for Rural Development, compling evidence from other sources, argues that that the importance of livestock in developing countries is only growing. The rising demand for livestock products and the impacts of climate change push politicians and researchers to pay more attention to the needs of this sector and the people involved in the livestock value chains. The problems in the sector range from control over food-borne diseases, through climate change resilience to lack of knowledge.