IFAD's Experience in Supporting Community-based Livestock and Rangeland Development

摘要

The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) is a United Nations specialised agency established as a result of the recommendations of the 1974 World Hunger Conference. Several things were happening at the start of IFAD operations. These included a dramatic drop in donors' support of livestock development activities, a sharp increase in the number of grazing animals available to meet growing human demand (enhanced by policies supporting supplemental feeding), and an erosion of traditional community management practices in state property or common access areas.