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Jan 2022Dec 2024

Selecting efficient farm-level antimicrobial stewardship interventions from a One Health perspective

The project provides explicit impact estimates and ranking for a range of farm-level antimicrobial resistance interventions in Senegal, highlighting where future research could be most valuable in understanding intervention efficiency from a One Health perspective. Objectives Establish a consortium...

Jan 2020Dec 2022

Small Ruminant Production Enhancement Project, Gambia

The project is national in design and intent. It will generally be implemented in 39 Districts of all the country's regions. However, due consideration will be given to the fact that projects implementing small ruminant production-related activities may be present in some areas to avoid unnecessary...

Dec 2021Aug 2022

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security Pillar of the AAAP

Improving adaptation of the livestock sub-sector to the climate change risks is therefore an imperative for achieving increased livestock production and productivity, transforming them into quality food for animal and human consumption, accessing markets for final products and integrating the...

Jan 2022Dec 2024

Protecting human health through a One Health approach

COVID-19 is the sixth zoonotic pandemic since 1980. The frequency and severity of these events is increasing as people encroach on wildlife habitats, and livestock and fish production systems intensify. Animal production systems are reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens, which are responsible for 60% of...

Aug 2022Jul 2025

Tropical Poultry Genetics Solutions (TPGS): Delivering farmer preferred, productive and ecologically adapted poultry to smallholders

This three year project will run as part of the One CGIAR initiatives and will focus on seven interrelated outcome areas, namely: Characterization of ecological adaptation of chicken ecotypes and identification of farmers trait preferences Strengthening of existing partnerships and developing new...

Jul 2021Jun 2023

Local governance of natural resources for community stabilization in Central Mali (Kedo Diren)

Mali's Mopti region is endowed with immense water and land resources generating for livelihoods for millions of families. The availability of these resources made the region an ideal environment for a thriving ruminant livestock farming. However, the region has recently been the scene of violent...

May 2022Apr 2025

Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Poultry disease in Burkina Faso is a major constraint to productivity and can negatively affect human health. Training of poultry producers and sellers on better farm and market practices, and effective business models that enhance value chain linkages can improve the safety and productivity of the...

Jan 2018Dec 2022

EQUIP–Strengthening Smallholder Livestock Systems for the Future Project

This project sets out to develop the knowledge, skills, tools and products that are prerequisites for future scaling efforts that will significantly reduce gaps in feed quantity and quality, and thereby increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The project has four focal areas...

livestock systems

Aug 2018Jul 2019

Aflatoxin-related health risk for milk consumers in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso

Milk and dairy products are a key source of essential nutrients, but they are also greatly vulnerable to contamination with microorganisms and chemicals that can cause illness in people. The high levels of aflatoxins in milk reported in various African countries, with their carcinogenic effect and...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Nov 2018Oct 2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same...