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Nguyen The Thao MSc., PhD. Student
Food, Animal production and
Human Comsumption in the
Asian Region. A review
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Introduction
The world problems:
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Population
Present: 6.7 billion
Year of 2025: 9.5billion
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Land limited: agriculture, building,
infrastructure, climate change…,
 Food demands v.s Food production
“How the world will sufficiently accommodate
and feed its human population with out
destroying the enviroment and depleting natural
resources???”
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Land used by region and country group,
1961,1991 and 2007, (FAO, 2009)
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Food security
The World Food Summit (1996): “When all
people at all times have access to
sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain
a healthy and active life”
People’s dietary meet and food preferences

country’s food security
“How OUR LIFE is….
….If without AGRICULTURE???”
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Human consumption
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Consumption of livestock products has
increased rapidly
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Grown in consumption of livestock
products per capital has markedly
outpaced that of other major food groups
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Since 1960s,
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Milk: almost double
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Meat: more than triple
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Egg: fivefold
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Consumption of agriculture products (1961-2005),
FAO, 2009
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Intake of energy deriver from livestock products
per capital 1961-2005. FAO, 2009
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Per capita consumption of livestock products

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Also, many millions off-farm jobs created
along the supply chain (trading, processing,
retailing)
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Between 4-17 off-farm jobs created for
every 100 litres milk collected, processed,
sold each day.

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Role of livestock
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Livestock’s
critical role in
nutrition
Milk and /or meat
important for school
children to improve
learning ability
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Poultry
(Chicken, Duck &
Turkey)
Pig and small
ruminant
(Pigs, Goat & Sheep)
Large ruminants
( Cattle, Buffalo)
Rice bran, broken
rice Left over

Percentage of rural households owning livestock,
by expenditure quintile. (FAO, 2009)
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Share of income from livestock activity in rural
households, by expenditurequintile (FAO,2009)