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In respect of milk production from improved tropical pasture, it has been 'settled law' that: 1. Tropical pastures, by virtue of their greater photosynthetic capacity, are capable of twice out-yielding temperate systems in respect of annual tonnage of herbage production; thus establishing a platform for at least matching temperate countries in year round milk yield per hectare; 2. In sustaining unsupplemented individual yields of the order of 4000 litres per cow per year, the empirical evidence clearly supported the possibility of sustained international competitiveness in milk production by developing countries; 3. The key to the sustained transformation of this potential into economic advantage lay in developing a clear understanding of the dynamics at the 'sward-animal interface'. The interposing of the serially-discredited economic theory of 'Comparative Advantage' as the basis for global trading and economic relationships, effectively truncated the progress toward constructing a solid knowledge base as the foundation for sustained competitive advantage in milk production by developing countries; even as respected reviewers were systematically ignoring the supporting evidence generated by research over the past 60 years. Thanks to the innovativeness of Brazilian researchers, we are now at the juncture where the long accepted potential of tropical pastures for competitive milk production can now be transformed into sustained economic value. This work seeks to cohere the several strands of grassland research of the past five to six decades, into a template for optimizing the nutrition of the high-yielding grazing dairy cow on improved tropical pasture to the advantage of the peoples of the Caribbean tropics and beyond

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Paul Jennings is the Principal Consulting Associate of MARJEN Consulting Group, a development consultancy with a focus on social entrepreneurship programmes. He has in the recent past provided consulting services to the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in addition to the Jamaican Government. He also serves as adjunct faculty and coordinator for a course in Tropical Livestock Development; part of the MSc. Agricultural Entrepreneurship degree programme of the University of the West Indies (UWI). A UK Commonwealth Scholar, he holds a PhD in Applied Dairy Cattle Nutrition from the University of London (Wye College), the Masters in Business Administration from the UWI, Mona, with a specialization in Finance, and a BSc Agric. (Hons) from UWI, St. Augustine. He has had a distinguished career in the Jamaican public sector as Livestock Researcher, rising ultimately to the position of Director of R&D in the Ministry of Agriculture; ending his public service career as Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board. He also served in the Jamaican private sector as General Manager, Serge Island Farms and Research Coordinator with the Jamaica Agriculture Development Foundation. He has authored numerous technical articles in Livestock Production as well as in aspects of Public Policy for Dairy Development. He has also authored/edited three reference texts on Livestock Development and more recently has ventured into literary writing with four published titles to date. Dr. Jennings was a shortlisted nominee for the 2016 National Science Medal. Since 2010 he has served as Chairman of The North Street United Educational Development Foundation, a charity dedicated to enhancing the value of education for social mobility for the youth of West Kingston. Currently he is engaged by the FAO as Lead Consultant in a programme for the Resuscitation of Domestic Milk Production in Guyana.

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