livestock production

All the operations that ensure the multiplication, for human use, of domestic and sometimes wild animals. It encompasses managing the reproduction of animals and giving them shelter, food and care in view of their use and/or their production. It is a complex activity that requires knowledge in zootechnics, ethics, food safety and the protection of the environment. To go a little further: Having gradually appeared between 10,000 and 5000 B.C., livestock production provides a living throughout the world to a billion farmers for whom it is the only resource and only possible activity.