Tag: livestock
It Pays to Invest in Animal Welfare
Global: Investing in animal welfare fosters prosperous and sustainable animal health markets for smallholder farmers around the world.
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It’s Time to Celebrate the Climate Benefits of Livestock Health
Africa & Middle East: Livestock farming, and in particular improving livestock health through vaccination, has positive climate and environmental impacts.
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Five Steps to Reducing Livestock’s Impact on the Environment
Africa & Middle East: Farm Africa Chief Executive Dan Collison unpacks the ways livestock can benefit the environment, livelihoods and more.
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How Livestock are Improving Women’s Livelihoods in Eastern Africa
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.
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Pastoralists are Defying Kenya’s Droughts with the Help of Big Data
: Satellite imagery, SMS weather services and livestock insurance are making herders more resilient in the face of climate change.
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Fodder for the Future: Enhancing Pastoralism in Ethiopia’s Lower Valley of the Omo
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.
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Sustainable Pasture Practices Double Milk Production in Colombia
Latin America & the Caribbean: Adopting environmentally-friendly pasture management methods can help female dairy farmers to unlock a dormant cattle industry.
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What We’ve Been Overlooking in the Great Debate on Livestock
Global: Anne Mottet outlines new research that reveals humans and livestock do not compete for earth’s resources as much as previously thought.
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Moving with the Times: Pastoralists Share Lessons in Sustainability
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.
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#FillTheGap! Women bring home the bacon in Malawi
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.
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#FillTheGap! Scaling up equality in Kenya
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.
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Combatting the AMR Crisis in the African Livestock Sector
Global: Supporter organisation AgriProFocus discusses steps needed to curb the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in the livestock sector.
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