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CHAPTERS  TABLES  BOXES  FIGURES APPENDICES     



 

COMPANION PUBLICATION :  Mapping Poverty and Livestock in the Developing World

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Executive summary

 

CHAPTERS

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Study design
2.1 Defining and quantifying the location and extent of poverty, and its association with livestock farming systems

2.2 Livestock and the poor: which species are most important to livelihoods?

2.3 The poor, their livestock and the impact of diseases

2.4 What have been the constraints to delivering animal health services and technologies?

2.5 Research opportunities in animal health

2.6 Pulling it all together: disease impact, research opportunities and poverty alleviation

Chapter 3 Global poverty and its association with agricultural systems
3.1 The distribution of poverty

3.2 Future trends

Chapter 4 The association of livestock species with the poor
4.1 How the poor use livestock

4.2 What should be the species focus of animal health research?

4.3 Results of species prioritisation at the regional workshops
Chapter 5 Animal diseases and their impact on the poor
5.1 General considerations

5.2 Types of diseases

5.3 Disease impacts

5.4 The critical role of risk for the poor

5.5 A framework for understanding disease impacts on the poor

5.6 A novel typology of disease impacts on the poor

Chapter 6 Zoonotic diseases and their impact on the poor
Chapter 7 Animal disease impact on the poor: study results
Chapter 8 The role of research in alleviating poverty through improved animal health
8.1 What role does research play in alleviating these impacts?

8.2 Improved prevention of disease through artificially induced population immunity

8.3 Improved prevention of disease through genetic resistance

8.4 Improved therapy of diseases

8.5 Improved recognition and evaluation of disease constraints through diagnostic indicators

8.6 Improved understanding of the dynamics, impacts and relative importance of diseases: epidemiology and economics

8.7 Improved delivery and adoption of disease-control technologies

8.8 Identification of research opportunities for impact on poverty

Chapter 9 Research opportunities for the development and adaptation of disease control technologies targeted at the poor, and for their delivery, adoption and impact
9.1 Epidemiology, economics and impact assessment

9.2 Delivery of animal health services

9.3 Research opportunities for specific technologies for the control of specific diseases

9.4 Synthesis of research opportunities

9.5 Research opportunities in genetic resistance of livestock to disease
Chapter 10 The balance between diseases with the highest impact and the opportunities for research on their better control: a synthesis of research priorities
10.1 A conceptual framework for classifying different research opportunities for poverty alleviation

10.2 Criteria for the inclusion of research opportunities in the conceptual framework matrix

10.3 Synthesis of animal health research opportunities

10.4 Research funding opportunities

10.5 How can research opportunities be ranked?
References
Diseases affecting the livestock of the poor
Acronyms

 TABLES

ES1 Relationship between different contributions to poverty alleviation and different types of research opportunities, with examples of research for the control of selected diseases and disease syndromes
1.1

Number (in millions) of poor livestock keepers by livestock production system

2.1 System for scoring impacts on the poor of a non-zoonotic livestock disease within a production system
2.2

System for scoring impacts on the poor of a zoonotic livestock disease within a production system

2.3 Impact of changes associated with poverty measure used
2.4

Impact of changes in weighting scheme

2.5 Impact of normalising regional production loss scores
2.6

Revised scoring system introducing vulnerability premium

2.7 Impact of vulnerability premium
3.1

Headcount (millions) poverty indicators, by region, 2000

4.1 Animal species kept by the poor, and their contribution to household assets
4.2

Expert rankings of species in terms of their importance to the poor, by region and production system

5.1 Sources of risks, including those related to animal disease
7.1

Top 20 diseases/pathogens globally or regionally, ranked according to their impact on the poor

7.2 Ranking of zoonotic diseases/pathogens according to their impact on the poor
7.3

Twenty top diseases/pathogens ranked according to their impact on the poor, by region (listed alphabetically within each rank group)

7.4 Twenty top diseases/pathogens ranked according to their impact on the poor, by production system (listed alphabetically within each rank group)
7.5

Top-ranked diseases/pathogens according to their impact on the poor, by species (listed alphabetically within each rank group)

7.6 Effect of combining economic and zoonotic impacts into single composite index
9.1 Research opportunities identified through commissioned expert reviews (ER) and regional workshops (WS): all diseases/pathogens ranked in the top 20 for all production systems
9.2 Research opportunities identified through commissioned expert reviews (ER) and regional workshops (WS): zoonotic diseases
9.3 Researchable issues in genetic resistance to disease
10.1 (ES1) Relationship between different contributions to poverty alleviation and different types of research opportunities1, with examples of research for the control of selected diseases/pathogens and disease syndromes 

BOXES

Box 5.1 Animals in harmony with their environment
Box 7.1 Developing a single composite index to capture the economic and zoonotic  impacts of animal diseases
Box 9.1 Deliverability checklist for animal health technology research

FIGURES

3.1 Regional distribution of poverty for different poverty measures
3.2 Distribution of poverty by livestock production system and by region (based on P-adjusted numbers of rural poor)
3.3 Poverty growth rates, 1987–98
5.1 Disease impacts
5.2 The ways in which diseases may affect the productive value of animals
5.3 Sustainable livelihoods framework
6.1 The zoonotic diseases and their impacts on the poor
8.1 The link between different research areas, the products of research and the outcomes to the poor

APPENDICES 

Appendix 1. Terms of reference: identifying priorities for international action for the development of livestock technologies. 4 pp.  
Appendix 2. Inception report: identifying priorities for international action for research into the development and delivery of livestock health technologies, summary work plan of consultancy. 7 pp.
Appendix 3. Commissioning studies to identify research opportunities. 4 pp.
Appendix 4. Global poverty mapping for livestock research. T. Robinson. 25 pp.
Appendix 5. Livestock in a sustainable livelihood context. C.L. Heffernan. 6 pp.
Appendix 6. Notes on pastoral livelihoods in Africa. A. Catley. 3 pp.
Appendix 7. A literature review of livestock diseases and their importance in the lives of poor people. J. Rushton, C.L. Heffernan and D. Pilling. 129 pp.
Appendix 8. Literature review on disease occurrence and impact (smallholder poultry). A. Permin and M. Madsen. 13 pp.
Appendix 9. Zoonotic diseases and their impact on the poor. P.G. Coleman. 21 pp.
Appendix 10. New research opportunities in meat-borne and other parasitic zoonoses. A.L. Willingham III. 22 pp.
Appendix 11. The delivery of animal health services to the poor: a review. A. McLeod and A. Wilsmore. 29 pp.
Appendix 12.  Literature review on disease control delivery, adoption and impact (smallholder poultry). A. Permin and M. Madsen. 6 pp.
Appendix 13. Role of genetically determined resistance of livestock to disease in the developing world: potential impacts and researchable issues. J.P. Gibson. 14 pp.
Appendix 14. Identifying priority areas for international action for the development of livestock technologies: reports of four regional workshops. K.R. Sones, B.D. Perry, T.F. Randolph and J.J. McDermott. 58 pp.
Appendix 15.  Data and analysis spreadsheets used to develop disease impact scoring and ranking (results reported in Chapter 7). T.F. Randolph. 3pp. + Excel data sheets.
Appendix 16. Summary presentation of the study results: PowerPoint presentation to the Second Inter-Agency Meeting, Copenhagen, August 2001. B.D. Perry.
Acronyms