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Biosecurity measures in meat and milk value chains: A study in Bura Sub-county, Kenya.

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Journal Articles & Books
April, 2015
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

Livestock value chains are an important source of employment, income and nutrition in developing countries. Increasing income has led to high demand for animal source products. Zoonotic diseases pose a public health risk to people producing, handling, processing and consuming animal products; with value chains creating a contact networks for transmission.

Gender, small-scale livestock farming and food security : policy implications in the South African context

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Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2015
South Africa
Southern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

Drawing on insights from multiple studies, this policy brief addresses the importance of gender considerations for small-scale livestock farming communities relative to food security in the South African context.

Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia

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Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2015
Ethiopia
Africa
Eastern Africa

The pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia cover around 65% of the country’s surface area. Rangeland resources are managed under collective common property arrangements, which are increasingly coming under pressure from both internal and external forces of change including alternative, but not necessarily ‘appropriate’, land uses.