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.