The Livestock Roles in the Wellbeing of Rural Communities of Timor-Leste
| Autor: | Mário Tilman, Elisa Maria Varela Bettencourt, Pedro Damião de Sousa Henriques, Maria Leonor da Silva Carvalho, Vanda Narciso |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
business.industry Agricultural diversification Timor-Leste Environmental resource management General Social Sciences Questionnaire Forestry Livelihood lcsh:S1-972 livestock Geography wellbeing Agriculture parasitic diseases Livestock Asset (economics) Agricultural productivity lcsh:Agriculture (General) Socioeconomics business Agronomy and Crop Science development Agribusiness |
| Zdroj: | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Vol 53, Iss suppl 1, Pp 63-80 (2015) Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Volume: 53 Supplement 1, Pages: 63-80, Published: MAR 2015 Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural v.53 suppl.1 2015 Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural (SBESR) instacron:SBESR CIÊNCIAVITAE Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1806-9479 |
| Popis: | The livestock species play very important economic and socio-cultural roles for the wellbeing of rural households, such as food supply, source of income, asset saving, source of employment, soil fertility, livelihoods, transport, agricultural traction, agricultural diversification and sustainable agricultural production. The aim of this work was to identify and characterize the different roles that livestock and livestock species play in rural communities of Timor-Leste, highlighting the importance of animal production for the wellbeing and rural development, and relate the functions performed by livestock production with economic, social and cultural attributes of the communities. The data used in this study were collected in 2011 through a questionnaire survey in three rural communities in the district of Bobonaro, namely in a mountain area, an irrigation plain and a coastal zone, and were complemented with secondary data. Livestock production in Timor-Leste is predominantly familiar being chickens, pigs, goats, cattle, horses, buffaloes and sheep the main species. Beyond the economic function, each livestock species also performs social and cultural functions. |
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