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Resource Use in Deep Litter Poultry System: Implications for Urban Food Security
ISSN: 2026 - 6480
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Resource Use in Deep Litter Poultry System: Implications for Urban Food Security
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Publisher: Koforidua Technical University
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Abstract
As urbanization increases, the locus of poverty is slowly shifting from rural to urban areas in what is known as urbanization of poverty. Thus, understanding how urban food system operate and finding ways to ensure that they remain sustainable is a mounting preoccupation. But urban livestock production has the potential to provide a significant contribution to the urban food security now and in the future and can lift the urban poor out of poverty. Information on resource use in deep litter poultry system is largely limited. Stochastic production frontier functions was used for data from deep litter poultry farmers to examine their efficiency technically, output orientation and level of farm. Farmers
