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Provedor de dados: | 123
País: | Brazil
Título: | The Livestock Roles in the Wellbeing of Rural Communities of Timor-Leste
Autores: | Bettencourt,Elisa Maria Varela; Tilman,Mário; Narciso,Vanda; Carvalho,Maria Leonor da Silva; Henriques,Pedro Damião de Sousa.
Data: | 2015-03-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Timor-Leste; Livestock; Wellbeing; Development.
Resumo: | 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.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20032015000600063
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural
Relação: | 10.1590/1234-56781806-94790053s01005
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural  v.53 suppl.1 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess