ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to demonstrate how systems analysis can be applied to the study of problems associated with livestock production in Subsaharan Africa, with special emphasis on the nutritional constraints of the system. It discusses the critical components and their interaction, thereby providing a framework for the construction of a model which could be useful in the future assessment of alternative production strategies in the Sudan. Many observers at the international development level are looking towards the Sudan as a future major supplier of food for Africa and the Middle East. Sudan has a highly diversified environment ranging from desert in the northern extremes to a semi equatorial climate in the south. Selection for high producing bulls of the Kennana sub-type of Baggara cattle breeds has been successful for several years in central Sudan as a measure for improving milk production from cows.
