Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday reported a fresh outbreak of anthrax in some parts of the country. Veterinary Services director Stewart Hargreaves told ZimOnline that his department has recorded fresh reports of an outbreak of the deadly livestock disease. “There has been an outbreak over the past two weeks. The outbreak has been recorded in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Livestock
Livestock in the balance: State of Food and Agriculture Report 2009
FAO’s latest State of Food and Agriculture report on “Livestock in the balance” will be launched during January 2010. Read more … (SLP) Continue reading
International consultation on Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems for Development: The Way Forward for Production Intensification
The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of FAO, in collaboration with Embrapa, IFAD and IICA, will co-organize an international consultation on the theme: Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems for Development: The Way Forward for Production Intensification. The consultation process will operate largely through an electronic exchange by experts during February 2010 followed by a smaller workshop in Sete Lagoas, Minas Geráis, Brazil, from … Continue reading
Burp-less sheep to help tackle climate change
Australian scientists are hoping to breed burp-less sheep in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The agriculture sector is the nation’s second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions behind the energy sector, producing about 16 per cent of Australia’s total emissions. Two-thirds of that figure is produced by livestock, and 66 per cent of … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Disease Control / East Africa / ECF / ILRI / Kenya / Livestock / Vaccines
New vaccine to reduce East Coast Fever
The high livestock mortality in East and Central Africa due to East Coast fever is set to reduce following a near breakthrough in the development of a recombinant (dead) vaccine. The vaccine once developed will be used in the immunization of livestock against East Coast fever. According to Molecular Biology Scientist Roger Pelle working at … Continue reading
Livestock on the line and other cows’ stories
New International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) staff member Pier Paolo Ficarelli authored a short article in a recent issue of the magazine ‘Rural 21.’ He argues: Livestock is on the line, attacked by climatologists, environmentalists, dieticians, disease controllers, children’s feelings for animals and, last but not least, international development cooperation agencies. Now, as 12,000 years … Continue reading
Sleeping sickness: Treating cattle to protect people
Every year, as many as 60,000 people in Africa die of sleeping sickness, a disease that passes between and among humans and animals through the bite of tsetse flies. Livestock such as cattle act as a reservoir for the disease, so treating cattle to cure them, and preventing re-infection through insecticide spraying, helps to reduce … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Feeding / Crop residues / Crop-Livestock / East Africa / Ethiopia / Fodder / ILRI / Livestock
Innovative partnerships boost livestock-maize systems in eastern Africa
In recent times, in eastern Africa, arable land has become more scarce and livestock production has gained more ground, making maize more important than ever—both as a source of food and feed—in highly intensified crop-livestock farming systems. In an innovative partnership, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) … Continue reading
Accessibility mapping and rural poverty in the Horn of Africa
This working paper has been prepared jointly for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI) and the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI). The work described in this paper contributes towards making available standardised spatial data to help analyse policy options, to target policy interventions and to evaluate their impact – contributing to … Continue reading
Asia / India / Livestock / Markets / Philippines / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Thailand / Vietnam
Contract farming to integrate rural smallholders in markets for livestock products
This report assesses the efficiency and effectiveness of contract farming as an institution for integrating rural smallholders in markets for livestock products, using detailed reviews of particular case studies on contract farming in India, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. Read more … (Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative) Continue reading
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