livestock Archives - Farming First

Global: Investing in animal welfare fosters prosperous and sustainable animal health markets for smallholder farmers around the world.

Opinion: Climate, Environment

It’s Time to Celebrate the Climate Benefits of Livestock Health

Carolin Schumacher

Africa & Middle East: Livestock farming, and in particular improving livestock health through vaccination, has positive climate and environmental impacts.

Opinion: Environment, Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

Five Steps to Reducing Livestock’s Impact on the Environment

Dan Collison

Africa & Middle East: Farm Africa Chief Executive Dan Collison unpacks the ways livestock can benefit the environment, livelihoods and more.

: Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

How Livestock are Improving Women’s Livelihoods in Eastern Africa

Meron Yomcwiny

Africa & Middle East: The Livestock for Livelihoods project is empowering pastoralist women in rural Uganda and Ethiopia to earn their own incomes and better support their families.

Case Study: Climate

Pastoralists are Defying Kenya’s Droughts with the Help of Big Data

Farming First

: Satellite imagery, SMS weather services and livestock insurance are making herders more resilient in the face of climate change.

Opinion: Environment

Fodder for the Future: Enhancing Pastoralism in Ethiopia’s Lower Valley of the Omo

Glen Engel-Cox

Africa & Middle East: A temporary solution to drought has inadvertently identified a sustainable solution to supporting pastoralism in Ethiopia, Glen Engel-Cox of iDE tells Farming First.

Opinion: Environment, Market Access

Sustainable Pasture Practices Double Milk Production in Colombia

Jessica Joye

Latin America & the Caribbean: Adopting environmentally-friendly pasture management methods can help female dairy farmers to unlock a dormant cattle industry.

Opinion: Environment, Food Security & Nutrition

What We’ve Been Overlooking in the Great Debate on Livestock

Anne Mottet

Global: Anne Mottet outlines new research that reveals humans and livestock do not compete for earth’s resources as much as previously thought.

Case Study: Environment

Moving with the Times: Pastoralists Share Lessons in Sustainability

Farming First

Asia: Pastoralists, who face the toughest of challenges from climate change, are well-placed to offer lessons in how to adapt to new weather conditions.

News: Gender

#FillTheGap! Women bring home the bacon in Malawi

Farming First

Africa & Middle East: By practising conservation farming techniques, Ethel Khundi produced almost three times more maize than she had done a year earlier, offsetting livestock losses to swine flu.

News: Gender

#FillTheGap! Scaling up equality in Kenya

Farming First

Africa & Middle East: With the help of IFDC, Beatrice Gichuru is setting the standard for equality in her area by proving that a woman can truly succeed with or without a husband.