ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the trends in policy and strategy in the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) and examines some project designs to illustrate implementation. A workshop, jointly sponsored by A.I.D.'s Bureaus for Program and Policy Coordination and for Africa, was held in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia in May of that year. All of A.I.D's policy statements are founded on the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. The chapter explains the evolution of a bilateral donor policy and strategy for development assistance to the livestock subsector of agriculture. Countries with burgeoning populations and limited resources tend to concentrate on improving the productivity of crop agriculture as a means of providing a cheap and plentiful food supply. Research concerning on-farm labor allocation must be carried out to evaluate interventions such as forage crop production, fattening-out operations and even collection of crop residue for use as fodder.
