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FAO Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch

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Download LDPS2 workbook, User's Guide and Training Manual

Downloads	Content	EN	FR
LDPS2 Model	Requires MS Excel (Zip file, 320 Ko)
LDPS2 Dataset	(Zip file, 18 Ko)
LDPS2 User's Guide	Introduction - First time through - Working with LDPS2 - Solving Problems - Case study: China Appendix A (Parameters sets) - Appendix B (Parameters: China) (PDF format, 961 ko)
LDPS2 Training Manual	Modeling cattle production in Swaziland with LDPS2 (PDF format, 300 ko

Installation

LDPS2 has been tested using Excel versions 5 and 7. If you are using the English Excel, we recommend that you use the English version of LDPS2, since some keywords are not automatically translated. LDPS2 is currently available in English and French.

Minimum requirements for using LDPS2 are:

• IBM-PC or compatible, 486 processor (Pentium is recommended);
  
  
• 4 megabytes RAM (more than 8 MB is recommended), 5 megabytes of free disk space;
  
  
• Excel 5.0 (or Excel 7.0) and Windows 3.1 (or Windows 95)
  
  
• color monitor with a VGA card.

LDPS2 is distributed as a self-decompressing archive named ldps2e.exe (or ldps2f.exe). This archive contains only one file named "ldps2e.xls" (or "ldps2f.xls"). To decompress the archive, copy it into a folder of its own anywhere on your hard disk (for example, folder C:\LDPS2) and double-click on it from the File manager.

The archive then decompresses itself and automatically creates the file "ldps2e.xls". You are now ready to start using LDPS2 by double-clicking on the file "ldps2e.xls". If Excel doesn't start automatically, you will have to first start Excel, and then open ldps2e.xls from the "FILE_OPEN" menu.