Five skills set for the development of groups and linking poor smallholder farmers to markets
Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad
Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadic pastoralists and their livestock. Sharing of transport logistics and equipment between physicians and veterinarians reduced total costs. Joint delivery of human and animal health services is adapted to and highly valued by hard-to-reach pastoralists.
ILRI annual report 2006: Safeguarding livestock diversity - The time is now
ILRI medium-term plan 2005–2007: Livestock—A pathway out of poverty
Key issues for livestock and pastoralism in Sudan
Kitengela transforming: Will pastoralists and wildlife survive?
The semi-arid Kitengela plains south of Nairobi National Park (NNP) have been the longtime
home of the Kaputiei Maasai community. Together with NNP these plains form the
Athi-Kaputiei ecosystem. The plains host rich populations of wildlife and are vital to the
health of NNP, since 70 to 80 percent of the Park’s animals roam outside it’s boundaries
at any one time.
But the rangeland that once seemed endless is now splintering. Close to the ever
expanding Nairobi, the Kitengela plains are experiencing a population boom, rising land
Livestock Asia: A strategy and action plan for research for poverty reduction
This strategy and action plan has been co-produced by over 50 organizations and individuals. We hope that it will be of value to all those interested in reducing poverty through livestock research and development in South and South-East Asia and China. In particular we hope that it will
be used by researchers, policymakers, aid specialists and development practitioners to inform the development of their policies, programs and projects.
Livestock development and climate change in Turkana District, Kenya
The main purpose of the study presented here is to shed some light using simple and aggregated methods on the following question: In view of the expected climate change, is there also a long-term perspective for livestock development in the area, i.e. will the Turkana ecosystem be able to sustain livestock production during the next few decades?