Livestock

To address the climate crisis, a paradigm shift in the global livestock sector is not an option – it is a necessity. But how and where should this transformation occur? Researchers have found that it is mainly five…

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Camel milk is popular throughout much of Kenya and Somalia, and a women’s community initiative in a north Kenyan town has established a cooperative to collect, process and distribute this much-sought product. While the…

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Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have analysed the bird flu epidemic caused by the H7N9 strain that affected China from 2013 to 2017. New phylogenetic trees will help to improve monitoring of future bird flu…

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While developments in vaccine technology have helped eradicate some of the most devastating livestock diseases, women livestock smallholders in particular face barriers to accessing existing livestock vaccines and…

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A serendipitous discovery has led researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya and the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to identify a genetic marker that…

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African swine fever is not only an economic threat and a threat for food security, it is also endangering wild pig populations. Stronger policies and strategies are needed to mitigate the impacts of ASF on wildlife,…

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The farming of livestock to feed the global appetite for animal products greatly contributes to global warming. However, a new study shows that thanks to greater production efficiency, emission intensity per unit of…

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Smallholder dairy production in Kenya has been identified as a key pathway to food and income security by the government. However, there is a lack of adequate knowledge and skills for effective milk production. In the…

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DLG Eurotier 2021 was held as a digital platform in mid-February. This was the first time it was organised in a digital format. Over 41,000 participants from 128 countries joined the online events and visited the digital…

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Livestock

About 300 million families rely on small ruminants as a source of food and income. The small ruminant plague Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) threatens their livelihoods and causes economic losses up to USD 2.1 billion…

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