Category Archives: Geodata

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Livestock in poor countries need drugs to stay alive and productive, but how to avoid the rise of ‘super bugs’?

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Developing-country livestock keepers need more and better drugs to keep their animals alive and productive, and there are increasing numbers of livestock in the South, where there is increasing use of antimicrobial drugs, and poor livestock keepers will be hurt the most by development in pathogens of antimicrobial resistance. So what’s needed to avoid ‘super bugs’ arising? A new PNAS paper has this to say. Continue reading →

Animal Production / Article / Cattle / Geodata / ILRI / Pigs / Poultry / SLS

Where do the world’s cattle, chickens, pigs live? Check out these cool maps (sheep and goats coming)

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This articles describes a fascinating set of 2014 maps available on a Livestock Geo-Wiki maintained by a multi-partner collaboration led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB-LUBIES). Here you’ll find regularly revised and updated global maps of livestock distributions and production systems. Continue reading →

Article / Geodata / Goats / Livestock Systems / USA

Goats are ‘having a moment’–and making their mark in the United States

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There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of 2012, the year of the most recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America’s goats were their own state, its population would be larger than that of Wyoming, Vermont, D.C. and North Dakota — combined. This is what all those goats look like on a map. Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Products / Burkina Faso / CGIAR / Chad / Drylands / East Africa / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Geodata / ILRI / Kenya / Livestock / Mali / Niger / Nigeria / Pastoralism / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Senegal / SLS / Somalia / South Sudan / Sudan / Tanzania / Uganda / West Africa

New analyses highlight the extent of livestock production in Africa’s drylands

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Typical long-horned goats of Abergelle Amhara, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). ‘Quantitative information on the importance of livestock systems in African drylands is scarce. A new study by Tim Robinson, of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and Giulia Conchedda, of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to redress this. The study … Continue reading →

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African drylands: Livestock demand and supply

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ILRI’s Tim Robinson maps the changing demand for livestock products and associated changes in production that will be required to meet future demand in African drylands. Continue reading →

Animal Production / Article / Geodata / ILRI / ILRIComms / Livestock Systems / Pigs / SLS

Global pig and hunger maps published on Vox.com

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‘Timothy Robinson and his co-authors put together a series of maps showing the global distribution of various widely eaten animals. This map shows where the world’s pigs live, and makes the point that the taste for delicious pork varies widely around the world. North Americans, Europeans, and Chinese people all eat pigs, but China’s enormous … Continue reading →