Better livestock policies for Africa












Table of Contents

by

Stephen Sandford1
Livestock Policy Unit, ILCA

1 A version of this paper was first presented at the conference on Livestock Policy Issues in Africa, held at the International Livestock Centre for Africa from 24th to 28th September 1984.

ALPAN - AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK

Network paper No. 1
January 1985

13 JUN 1987

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)

P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Tel: 18 32 15 - Telex: ADDIS 21207

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Livestock policy and performance

Definition of policy

Functions, objectives and instruments of policy

Improvements in policy

The critical policy issues

Designing better policies and forecasting results

Improvements in the process of policy formulation

A caricature of policy formulation

Conclusions

References