Improved household food security can be achieved by increasing and diversifying household food production, increasing and smoothing household income and consumption and by reducing the cost of obtaining food. The value chain approach mainly focuses on linking households to growing markets, so that households can earn income to purchase additional food. Small ruminants provide meat, milk, skin, hair, manure and other products and require cheaper investment expenses to start production and fattening. Small ruminants account on average for 40% of the cash income and 19% of the total value of...

Urban and peri-urban sheep and goat keeping is an important livelihood strategy for urban dwellers, it is usually conducted by retired people and unemployed as a sole or supplemental sources of household income. Most of the sheep and goat owners were lower income families; whose income depended on sale of animals and their products, petty traders, daily laborers, house rent and pension. This book provides means of examining the impact of urban and peri-urban sheep and goat production on food security of urban deweler.