Subject(s): Participant observation -- Animal Health -- Feeding System -- Livestock- important resource for poor people, conventional research and participatory research -- Participatory situation analysis : General aspects of participatory situation analysis, getting an overview of livestock keeping, feeding systems and resources, animal health, analysis of constraints, problems and opportunities -- Participatory technology development : When to do participatory trials, getting started, designing trials and experiments, monitoring and evaluation of experiments, achieving wider impact -- Case studies : Learning about the control of Newcastle disease with village chicken farmers in Mozambique, participatory development of mange treatment technology in Kenya, participatory validation of medicinal plants for livestock diseases of pastoralists in Kenya, tree pods as a supplement to improve productivity of female goats in India, women, livestock and innovation Campesino experiment in Mexico, adoption and scaling out- experiences of forages for smallholders project in south east Asia, development of herbaceous forage legume technologies in central Kenya, development of kebkabiya donkey plough in western Sudan, Tzotzil shepherdesses and Chiapas wool sheep Mexico -- Maximizing the contribution of participatory livestock research