The report said empowering female farmers through legislation on rights and education, promoting home gardens and small-scale livestock rearing, and complementary programmes in health, water and sanitation would improve the lives of smallholder farmers.
Dryland crops are grown in association with small-scale livestock production within agro-pastoral systems in the north and northeast.
Small-scale livestock production is a major contributor to the economies of sub-Saharan countries, especially for the rural populations.
The authors use small-scale pig keepers in Scotland as an example of how important small-scale livestock keepers might be for national biosecurity.
The inherent flexibility of small-scale livestock keeping, if it can be combined with enhanced community rangeland management, has significant potential.
The viability of traditional small-scale livestock keeping in the Karoo biome is, on the other hand, relatively sensitive to climate change effects, reflecting the nature of this system, which tends to resemble small-scale commercial ranching.
The sedge mats (dyeing, weaving processes, and small-scale livestock farm at the same place) craft villages in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) are the most popular craft villages in Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta area.
For the small-scale livestock farms (30 50 pigs), lack of biogas plants is explained by the lack of household's budget [52], and most of the households in the craft villages do not apply any waste treatment measures [1, 47].
The livestock systems modelled for the Woodland and Savanna biomes included unfenced traditional small-scale livestock keeping on open access communal land, unfenced cattle posts, medium-scale ranching on partially exclusive communal land and fenced commercial medium- to large-scale ranching (breeding and rearing) on fully exclusive commercial land.
The upper reaches support small-scale livestock farming, which becomes more intensive and incorporates arable farming once it flows off the moor.
