Billions of people around the world consume milk and dairy products every day. Not only are milk and dairy products a vital source of nutrition for these people, they also present livelihoods opportunities for farmers, processors, shopkeepers and other stakeholders in the dairy

The purpose of the FAO Diversification booklets is to raise awareness andprovide decision support information about opportunities at farm and localcommunity level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers.Each booklet focuses on a farm or non-farm enterprise that can beintegrated

It is estimated that almost 150 million farm households, i.e. more than 150 million people, are engaged in milk production, the majority of them in developing countries. Annual milk consumption growth rates in these countries averaged 3.5 to 4.0 percent

After more than half a century of declining real prices for dairy products, there are strong signs of astructural change in the global dairy sector which are conducive for investment in the sector. This isparticularly true in Asia where demand

By 2050 the world will need to feed an additional 2 billion people and require 70 percentmore meat and milk. The increasing future demand for livestock products, driven byincreases in income, population and urbanization will impose a huge demand on