International cooperation and crop-livestock systems

World demographic growth, undernutrition and malnutrition, social and economic imbalances, evolution, trends and forecasts in food consumption, particularly food of animal origin, in the Planet. Gap between income and population density. Food excess and shortage in the world. Soil use for crop and animal production in the different areas of the world: extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive systems. Assets and limits of pasture. The need for arable land to produce feeds: consequences of deforestation. The different crop and livestock systems in the world. Erosion, desertification and the grazing systems. The "mixed" systems. Landless farms and animal rearing systems: social and environmental aspects. Intensive animal husbandry: damage, opulence or opportunity? The main cropping systems: cereals, pulses, tubers. The "cash" crops (coffee, tea, cotton, cocoa, ). Agro-techniques and innovation in agriculture. Sustainability: social, economic, environmental? Land grabbing in the developing countries (DC). Carbon and water footprint of the different commodities and foods of animal origin. Food of animal origin in the DC: luxury or right? Animal husbandry for self-consumption and for the market. Assets and limits of the exported technologies from the industrialized countries. Assets and limits of globalization. Food security, food safety and environmental sustainability of the different livestock systems. Food sovereignty. Looming crises: food, water, soil, biodiversity erosion. From the Green Revolution up today. The role of the International Cooperation. The non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Planning of development projects: from the analysis of the needs to the description of the project, its implementation and subsequent monitoring. Agricultural/livestock development projects: case studies examples. The importance of the local extension service and of the active and responsible involvement of the counterpart and of the beneficiaries. Microcredit, a tool, not a goal. Dairy and meat production systems and chains in different situations: the pastoral nomadism, the "minor" species farms and the monogastrics (pigs, broilers, laying hens) production units.