Impact of Livestock biodiversity in poverty reduction and welfare change in rural Sudan

Abstract

The livestock production offers many benefits to millions of farmers in the 
developing world. These animals are integral to rural livelihoods and culture, providing 
food, materials (wool, hide, horns, etc.), income, and mechanical power for pulling carts 
or plowing fields.  
This study attempts to investigate the role of agro-biodiversity concentrating on livestock 
production in poverty reduction in rural Sudan and to evaluate the biodiversity of livestock 
species and its effects on ecological sustainability.  
The study focuses on the problem of rural farmers from a broader perspective, 
among agricultural farming systems in rural Sudan, named as traditional rainfed, irrigated 
and mechanized rainfed farming system.  
The results show that livestock biodiversity of the all farming systems is differed and 
concentrated in types of livestock practices, no aquatic fisheries was practices in all farms. 
Majority of the livestock species is in  the  hands of  the rural  farmers  that  are  residence 
in the  northern