Thursday, November 27, 2008

Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries

TITLE: Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries
Consultancy Report to the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

AUTHOR: Susanne Gura

SUMMARY: An analysis of the impact of capital-intensive livestock production and how it affects resource-poor smallholders.

LINK: http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/docs/gura_ind_livestock_prod.pdf

CONTRIBUTOR: rengab

Monday, November 24, 2008

Tropical Dairy Farming

hi all

we import more than 98% of our dairy consumption and more than 28% of our beef consumption

in the rural areas, millions are underemployed and poor with low quality of life, while mountains of feedsruff-grade agricultural production by-products just rot away

world competitive import substitution in these areas have been a long time advocacy

i hope through this link i can convince more science scholars with the lagablab to go to agriculture science, technology and entrepreneurship

Tropical Dairy Farming - Feeding Management for Small Holder Dairy Farmers in the Humid Tropics

in

http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/20/pid/5126.htm

more power to bansang pilipino!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Why not

The PSHS school library burns down. Then Caloy Arcilla had an idea - rebuild the library by alumni efforts. Batch 77 could gather 77 books that helped shape our high school minds. Then Rene Abad asked "Did I hear 777 books?". I thought why not eBooks as well. Joel Yuvienco then suggested to make it a collaborative effort of all batches. Well, let's get it started and see where this takes us...