非洲有大量的牲畜,是一种尚未充分利用的丰富资源。有牛、羊、山羊和骆驼近四亿头,平均每人有一头牲畜,这是非洲农业的一个重要特点。为了发展畜牧业生产,在埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴于一九七四年发生旱灾之后成立一个国际非洲畜牧研究中心。它是组成国际农业研究咨询组织的十三个国际农业研究中心之一。它的任务之一是搞研究,以便使这些地区生产出更多的产品,帮助一些国家确定农业发展款 Africa has a large number of livestock, is an underused resource. Nearly 400 million cattle, sheep, goats and camels, on average, have one animal per head, an important feature of African agriculture. In order to develop livestock husbandry, an International Center for Livestock Research in Africa was established following the drought in 1974 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. It is one of 13 international agricultural research centers that make up the International Advisory Agricultural Research Organization. One of its tasks is to carry out research in order to enable these areas to produce more products and to help some countries to identify agricultural development funds