Reducing the impact of infectious diseases on village poultry production in Ethiopia

Chickens have a high socio-economic value and are important to those (often landless) people who do not own cattle, sheep, or goats. Poultry production is particularly important to women, who often own and manage the chickens and control cash from sales. The resulting income is often used to support education of children.

Improved pig production and health in western Kenya

Local pork butchers are the main market channels for pigs, but farmers are often exploited by these buyers. There is no system in place for farmers to accurately determine the weight of the pigs at sale and thus get better value for their pigs. The commonly used method of estimating the weight by “just looking” at the pig is highly unreliable and provides biased weight estimates.

Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH)

Pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies

Driven by the fear of a possible human pandemic, responses to HPAI outbreaks have generally been top-down, heavy handed government interventions. Control measures have centred on stamping out which may entail large scale culling of infected flocks and in-contact flocks and the high concentration of...

Ecosystem approaches to the better management of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases in the Southeast Asia region

The Ecosystem Approaches to the Better Management of Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia (EcoZD) project worked directly with more than 100 key zoonotic emerging infectious diseases management actors across eight multi-disciplinary teams in six countries to attain project...

Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa

The first phase focused on adapting methods and evaluating the extent of resistance to trypancides in northeast Guinea, southern Mali and southwest Burkina Faso, and testing integrated control strategies that would reduce the risk of emerging drug resistance. The second phase of the project builds...

Strengthening capacities for community-based livestock health service delivery in the Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia