{"id":320,"date":"2012-04-14T02:59:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ikrweb.wordpress.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2012-04-14T02:59:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:59:58","slug":"livestock-out-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilse-koehler-rollefson.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Livestock out of balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, due to travel and slow internet connection in Rajasthan its been a while,\u00a0 but at least there has been some progress and follow-up with respect to the issues raised in the last post. In the meantime, my colleague Evelyn Mathias has completed a study about the impact of the Livestock Revolution on farmers – which gives ample food for thought. The results are preliminary and need to be discussed with economists, but they are on-line now as a discussion paper “Livestock out of balance. From asset to liability in the course of the Livestock Revolution.<\/a>” on the LPP<\/a> website. One of Evelyn’s conclusions is that the enormous competition for ever cheaper livestock products is creating incentives for “unethical behaviour”, such as the use of banned antibiotics and many environmental sins.<\/p>\n

Well, I will be attending the 13th Inter-Agency Donors Group Meeting<\/a>, this time organised by the Worldbank in Washington DC, over the next couple of days. One of the priority themes is “equity” and I am really curious what the results of the discussions will be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, due to travel and slow internet connection in Rajasthan its been a while,\u00a0 but at least there has been some progress and follow-up with respect to the issues raised in the last post. In the meantime, my colleague Evelyn Mathias has completed a study about the impact of the Livestock Revolution on farmers – … <\/p>\n

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