This report was prepared by Paul Riethmuller under the technical guidance of Denis Hoffmann, Senior Animal Production and Health Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO/RAP) and Henning Steinfeld, Chief, Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch, Agriculture Department, FAO Headquarters, Rome. Paul Riethmuller of the Department of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia authored chapters 1,4 and 5. He coauthored chapters 2 and 3 with Nawarat Chalermpao. Nawarat Chalermpao also assisted in compiling some of the information used in the chapters for which she was not a co-author. Others who gave freely of their knowledge of the livestock industries were A. Abeyratne, P.C. Bansil, Bingshe Ke, G. Ramsay, D. Smith, D. Steane, and the participants at two FAO workshops. The first of these, Fostering the Policy Dialogue in Support of Equitable, Safe and Clean Livestock Farming, Regional Brainstorming Workshop for East and South Asia, was held between 19-22 February 2001 in Bangkok. The second workshop, Area-Wide Integration of Specialized Crop and Livestock Activities: Formulation of Guidelines, took place between 17-20 September 2001, also in Bangkok. Assistance at various stages in preparing the report also came from Vishnu Songkitti, Chanrit Uawongkun, Jenny Turton and Rebecca and Rachel Riethmuller.
The research was part of the FAO partnership programme of collaborative research with universities.
