Cattle Production Tendencies in the World

Abstract

Stockbreeding has had multiple roles in society. It has contributed directly to food security and health, generating income to producers and non-producers with the sale of their products and sub-products. It has supplied nutrients to the soil in mixed production systems, and operated as the tractive force and given way to the capital accumulation processes. On a cultural level, it has been a symbol of status, been managed as an exchange, as a dowry, or as savings for moments of financial illiquidity. Its activity has contributed both positively and negatively to the economic growth of countries, public health and the environment, and it is now one of the fastest growing subsectors of the agricultural sector in under developed countries. This document aims to gather information from different researchers in the world so as to give a view of what is expected to happen with it in the future