With greater investment, livestock production can be an economic driver for people throughout the developing world.

Meeting the projected doubling in demand for milk, meat and eggs in lower-income countries in the next 40 years offers huge opportunities for more than a billion people who rely on the livestock industry for their livelihoods.

Globally, the livestock sector provides livelihoods and incomes for at least 1.3 billion people.

Globally, small-scale farmers and herders supply more than 40% of the world’s milk, 70% of the world’s lamb, 50% of the world’s beef, 60% of the world’s pork and 50% of the world’s poultry.

In light of livestock’s global economic importance, the public sector is significantly under-investing in the livestock sector.

Contributing an average of 40% of agricultural gross domestic product worldwide, livestock must receive vastly more public investment than it does today.