Milk for Health and Wealth

Smallholder dairying offers high returns to land and labor, a source of regular income, gives women an opportunity to become economically active, encourages cooperation between smallholders and transfers capital from urban centers to rural areas through the trade of milk: a low risk and low cost activity that has the potential to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods. The target audience for is people and organizations that provide advisory, business and technical support to small-scale farmers and local communities in low and middle-income countries, as well as policy makers and program managers.--Publisher's description.