This paper focuses on analysing gender issues in livestock and root crop production. Qualitative data for the study was collected through gender disaggregated group discussions (GDs) in two districts, Mvomero and Kongwa in Tanzania. Data were collected from 4 communities representing the four vil [...]

Between January and February 2012 the World Bank-FAO-ILRI Livestock Data Innovation Project administered a global online survey among livestock stakeholders with the objectives to: (i) rank livestock domains/areas for which information is demanded; (ii) review perceptions of the quality of availa [...]

Pastoralists have to travel hundreds of miles on poor, or non-existent, roads to find even the most basic of livestock treatments. They are very willing to pay for these products but all too often obtain ineffective smuggled or counterfeit products. During periods of drought such as the well-publ [...]

This study by LPP member Evelyn Mathias investigates the impact of the Livestock Revolution on farmers. The results provide some major food for thought. They do suggest that livestock has turned in many cases from an asset into a liability, since farmers and livestock keepers, in order to remain [...]

To avoid impending food crises in East Africa, policy makers should act now to ease the cross-border movement of pastoralists, says Pablo Manzano, Global Coordinator of the Type: Policies & Strategies

This survey was carried out to study animal manure management on livestock farms with biogas technology (biogas farms) and without (non-biogas farms) in the areas surrounding the Vietnamese cities Hanoi and Hue. The objective of the study was to assess the contribution of biogas pr [...]

To date, nomadic communities in Africa have been the primary focus of ethnoveterinary research. The Bukusu of western Kenya have an interesting history, with nomadic lifestyle in the past before settling down to either arable or mixed arable/pastoral farming systems. Their collective and accumula [...]

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is being advocated to enhance soil health and sustain long term crop productivity in the developing world. One of CA's key principles is the maintenance of soil cover often by retaining a proportion of crop residues on the field as mulch. Yet smallholder crop–l [...]

This article presents simple livestock handling facilities designed by Temple Grandin and the rationale behind them.

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Le présent document est une synthèse des travaux menés depuis plus de vingt ans par VSF puis AVSF pour le développement de l’aviculture villageoise au Togo, au Mali et au Sénégal. Il répond à l’attente des institutions nationales [...]