livestock
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Communities strengthen zoonotic disease surveillance in southern Zambia
Communities in southern Zambia are helping veterinary services detect animal diseases earlier through local reporting, anthrax vaccination and better livestock…
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Dust to dividends: How livestock is restoring Africa’s rangelands
Rangelands, or the vast landscapes grazed by livestock or wildlife, sustain the livelihoods of around two billion people around the…
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A race against ticks: How one Zambian Chiefdom is taking livestock health into its own hands
In southern Zambia’s Nyawa Chiefdom, where rural life still beats to the rhythm of livestock bells and dry-season rains, three…
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Meet the farmers and scientists collaborating to restore Kenya’s degraded grasslands
Hellen Atieno Owuor remembers a time when farming goats and cattle in the sub-humid eastern highlands of Kenya was a…
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Scientists urge action as Gambian livestock grazing puts forests at risk
Herders moving within Gambia and across the country’s borders into Senegal in search of pasture inadvertently threaten forests and the…
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Chickens and cattle a gateway for economic diversification and wildlife protection
Guyana’s Rupununi region is home to spectacular landscapes and exotic animals, where visitors hope to glimpse giant anteaters and armadillos.…
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Building soil and ecosystem health for food and nutritional security: A worm’s eye view
Leigh Ann Winowiecki is theme leader for Soil and Land Health at World Agroforestry (ICRAF). My father and I were…
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“Engagement landscape” concept takes shape in DRC’s Yangambi
Healing the heavily forested landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the aftermath of devastating wars that ended…
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Smallholder farmers in Cameroon benefit from landscape restoration efforts
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH’s Forest and Environment Programme (ProPFE) piloted several community-based reforestation projects across Cameroon’s Far…
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More milk, less emissions from forests
African countries must respond to an increasing demand for food while delivering on their national commitments to the global climate…
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Forests: The greenest pastures?
How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on the environment? In sub-Saharan Africa, the answer…
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Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
Oil palm, cattle, timber and soy have all received global attention in recent years for their outsized ‘forest footprints’ –…
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COP23 Special: In Burkina Faso, finding new paths through a changing landscape
When the rains come in Burkina Faso, a familiar change sets in. Well-worn paths through the dry savannah plains and…
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Forests, farming and food
Amina*, a young mother of four, lives in a rural village in the Oromia region of Southern Ethiopia. At 2,000…
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In an important first for Africa, climate data ‘Made in Kenya’
NAIROBI, Kenya—The first research center of its kind in Africa is expected to generate more cost-effective and precise greenhouse gas…
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