Global veterinary vaccines market to reach US$5.6 billion by 2015

Posted on 25 Feb 2011 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

Given the frequent outbreaks of animal diseases such as bird flu, avian influenza, anthrax, and other viral and bacterial infections, animal healthcare has gained tremendous significance across the globe. The global veterinary vaccines market waned in 2008 and 2009, as a result of the global meltdown. The market, nevertheless, recovered in 2010 and is expected … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Environment / Europe / Livestock

EU publishes study on livestock emissions

Posted on 24 Feb 2011 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

A study on the ‘evaluation of the livestock sector’s contribution to the EU greenhouse gas emissions’ was commissioned by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It estimates emissions from all livestock sectors in Europe. UK National Farmers Union Director of Policy Martin Haworth said: “This recent evaluation from the EU builds upon previous … Continue reading »

Animal Products / Dairying / Livestock Systems / Middle East

IFAD to help boost dairy production in Syria

Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

A new US$73.13 million IFAD-supported project will help reduce poverty mainly in marginal dry areas of the Syrian Arab Republic. The Integrated Livestock Development Project will benefit around 311,000 poor rural households: small sheep, cattle and buffalo holders; small milk producers, collectors and processors living in poverty-stricken seasonal settlements in the Badia and in settled … Continue reading »

Climate Change / Environment / PA

Bombshell: The time to start controlling global warming ‘was yesterday’

Posted on 22 Feb 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A new study projects that half the world’s land-based permafrost will vanish by mid-century on our current greenhouse gas emissions path, turning today’s Arctic carbon into a huge carbon source by the 2020s, at which time the North Pole is expected to be largely ice-free. The thaw and decay of permafrost carbon is irreversible. What … Continue reading »

Asia / Dairying / Food Safety / ILRI / India / MarketOpps / Markets / PA / South Asia

Adulteration of milk in northeast India addressed by innovative platform

Posted on 22 Feb 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A consultant to the European Commission, Wyn Richards, this week expressed satisfaction at the methodology adopted in India ‘for sensitizing the stakeholders on hygienic handling and distribution of unadulterated milk’ in Guwahati, the capital of the state of Assam. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is providing technical support to this project. ‘Milk though is … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Climate Change / Environment / Livestock Systems

Research shows livestock industry is ‘green’

Posted on 18 Feb 2011 by Peter Ballantyne • 1 Comment

Livestock agriculture is green. It is time the industry stopped allowing itself to be pushed around and start using science-based information to tell what it is doing for the world, according to speakers at the recent Southwest Beef Symposium in Amarillo. Confined cattle feeding is a necessary industry to feed the growing population and also … Continue reading »

Agri-Health / Agriculture / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Capacity Strengthening / CaSt / CRP4 / Directorate / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Epidemiology / Food Safety / ILRI / MarketOpps / Nutrition (human) / PA / Zoonotic Diseases

IFPRI agriculture, nutrition and health conference in Delhi: ‘At a glance’

Posted on 16 Feb 2011 by Susan MacMillan

The 1,000 participants that gathered in Delhi last week for an international conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) came from 65 countries and from the agricultural, health, nutrition, and related sectors and represented governments, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, research organizations and academia alike. Some 150 chairpersons, speakers and rapporteurs engaged themselves … Continue reading »

Animal Breeding / Biotech / CRP11 / Drylands / East Africa / ILRI / Indigenous Breeds / Kenya / PA / Pastoralism / Sheep / Small Ruminants

Shepherds saving sheep

Posted on 16 Feb 2011 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

The ‘hairless’ (non-wool-producing), native and worm-resistant red Maasai sheep of East Africa (photo credit: ILRI). An article this week in InterPress Service tells of Samburu pastoral herders working to bring back their native Red Maasai sheep because it does better than other, exotic, breeds, in the increasingly variable climate of northern Kenya. ‘. . . … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Mozambique / Poultry / Southern Africa

Transforming Mozambique’s poultry sector

Posted on 14 Feb 2011 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

Speaking at a recent meeting on the ‘Impact of U.S. Support on Farming, Poverty and Stability in Mozambique’, Florencia Cipriano, Head of Veterinary Services in Mozambique, described the country’s poultry sector transformation. This transformation included the establishment of the Mozambican Aviculture Association (AMA) that “enabled new poultry farmers to form sustainable businesses, helping them understand … Continue reading »

Africa / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / CBPP / Disease Control / Vaccines

Paying for outcomes: Protecting human and animal health in Africa