​More than 50% of the world's people are dependent

More than 50% of the world's people are dependent on keeping their livestock for the livelihoods.

- 70% of world's rural poor

- 640 million subsistence farmers

- 190 million landless people in landless households see: LID (1999) "Livestock in Poverty-focused Development," Livestock in Development, Crewkerne UK​

Source: Seedling, January 2003, 8.

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