A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Improve the Socio-economic Status of Smallholder Livestock Farmers in Rural India

This project sought to identify and assemble the various academic disciplines at the University of Pennsylvania needed to comprehensively address the challeging issue of global poverty. Poverty is and has always been a complex web of issues around resource availability and use along with an array of socio-economic problems, requiring integrated solutions. Improvements in health care alone constitute only a transient improvement in quality of life, if food insecurity is always lurking in the shadows. This project sought to deal with food insecurity head-on, by examining closely the relevant issues affecting smallholder livestock farmers in Indian villages.