Download or read book Ensuring Animal Health and Other Services for Efficient and Inclusive Livestock Value Chains in LMICs written by Isabelle Baltenweck and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Health and Welfare in Livestock Production Enterprises written by Richard Skiba and published by After Midnight Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of animal health and welfare practices in livestock production enterprises, focusing on the essential principles that ensure the well-being, productivity, and longevity of animals raised for food and agricultural purposes. It covers critical aspects of livestock management, including the provision of adequate nutrition, proper housing, disease prevention, and effective medical care. The book emphasizes creating environments that minimize stress, prevent injury, and promote natural behaviours in animals, which are key to enhancing their overall productivity and quality. In addition to animal welfare, the book explores how modern livestock enterprises integrate environmental sustainability and regulatory compliance. It highlights the importance of adhering to ethical guidelines and industry standards, ensuring humane treatment while optimizing farm efficiency. Topics such as resource management, sustainable grazing, water conservation, and waste management are explored in depth. Key chapters include animal welfare policies, signs of welfare issues, prevention and treatment strategies, transportation of livestock, health assessments, and maintaining proper nutrition and water supplies. This book serves as a valuable resource for farmers, livestock managers, and agricultural professionals committed to improving both animal welfare and farm sustainability.
Download or read book A Value Chain Approach to Animal Disease Risk Management written by Jonathan Rushton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is based on earlier practical field applications of approaches contained in a FAO working paper (Taylor et al., 2010). The working paper's detailed technical section has served as a background resource document for the present guide. The practical approach described in Part Two of this guide has been developed largely during practical and training workshops carried out in Viet Nam with a focus on H5N1 HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza). Work carried out by the authors in Indonesia, Thailand, China, Egypt and other African countries has also contributed to the preparation of this guide. Disease prevention and control, at the national or at local farm level, whether funded by the state or with private resources, must be planned and implemented in proportion to the level of risk associated with a particular animal disease. Planning for disease prevention and control should be risk-based, and prevention and control measures should be proportionate to the risk assessed. It is unrealistic to implement a very costly programme against a disease hazard that has low risk. Furthermore, it is recognized that in livestock production and marketing systems the different stakeholders (people, groups, organizations) may be affected by and react to disease hazards in different ways and may face and perceive and accept different levels of risk. The various stakeholders may also be affected in different ways by the prevention and control measures adopted. Ideally, prevention and control measures should be proportionate to the risk faced by each stakeholder; otherwise compensatory mechanisms may be needed to ensure compliance and equity. Two technical issues should be addressed together in order to achieve this goal. 1. Understanding the livestock production systems and how the stakeholders operate and the decisions they make within the livestock production systems. 2. Evaluation of disease risks within the livestock production systems in question and of measures to reduce those risks. The first issue involves what in economics is called 'value chain analysis'; the second issue entails what in veterinary epidemiology is called 'risk analysis'. The purpose of this guide is to show how elements of value chain analysis and risk analysis can be combined to form a practical and useful approach to planning for disease prevention and control measures. This approach should be risk-based and people-centred. Some of the key questions answered using these analysis techniques are: - Which processes within different production and marketing systems carry risk for disease spread, and what are their relative contributions to overall risk? - Which production systems carry more overall risk and therefore require more regulation/intervention? For example, with respect to H5N1 HPAI, should priority be given to backyard poultry, or do other commercial systems require urgent attention? - Who has most to gain or lose through risk reduction interventions? The purpose of applying the combination of value chain and risk analyses is to address the problem of disease risk and contribute to disease control planning. Therefore, the value chain analysis needs to focus specifically on elements that either increase disease risk or that are critical in disease risk management, thus avoiding the need for a complete value chain analysis; otherwise there is the danger that value chain mapping and analysis are carried out in unnecessary detail or with the wrong focus. The best way to achieve this is to ensure that veterinary epidemiologists and social scientists work together throughout the process at all levels. The methodological approach presented here can be flexible and should not be seen as a rigid prescription. It is important to work at different levels of detail. A clear overview is needed to ensure that no important risks in the value chains are omitted, while attention to detail is needed in identifying and appraising risk reduction measures. The amount of detailed data and detailed analysis required depends on objectives of disease control decision-making. The iterative nature of data gathering is an ongoing process, and therefore it is not necessary or practical to get everything perfect before making decisions. The value chain/risk analysis process will identify areas that require more or less detailed data so that data collection efforts are focused and prioritized. The processes described may be carried out by a few experts working together or with full involvement of all stakeholders through a series of workshops, discussions or personal interviews, depending on the availability of experts, time constraints and the budget available. The analyses and monitoring of risk in value chains should be carried out in preparedness for disease and not only in response to outbreaks. An understanding of the “usual” patterns of movements of animals, products, materials, people, vehicles, etc., leads to a better understanding of how disease could spread if introduced into the system at different places. This in turn allows for planning of strategies to reduce risks. It is important for veterinary services to monitor changes in value chains and assess how these chains may evolve in time and space (e.g. sudden reactions to market shocks, or longterm trends in consumer preferences and supply). Variations in short- or longer-term prices between areas within a country or across national boundaries may affect flows and alter the relative importance of different value chains, which in turn could affect disease risk. Risk factors can change seasonally and over the long term as livestock sectors develop. Veterinary services need to monitor the changes in the risk factor and respond to different risk levels. At the regional level the principles of this approach can be applied to rapidly assess production systems, the epidemiological situation of disease and the socio-political situation within several countries to identify those areas where disease control interventions for specific diseases may be feasible or not in the short or medium term. The processes of monitoring and evaluating the livestock value chains and assessing risks should never become an office-based and expert-orientated activity. The chains themselves are not run, managed or driven by the risk analyst, who is not part of these chains. The livestock value chains are run by people who work and run businesses within the chains. They are managed by the people who determine how the chain functions and how stakeholders within the chains interact. Finally, the chains are driven by the consumers who demand food of a certain quality and in certain quantities. If the risk analyst gets to know the people and interacts with them in a professional manner, offering his/her knowledge on animal disease and animal health, the chains will function better, then he/she will be considered an adviser. Such advisers will have a major impact on how these chains can avoid the introduction of disease and how they can manage and eliminate disease quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.
Download or read book Developing sustainable value chains for small scale livestock producers written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication constitutes a practical development tool, which implements the sustainable food value chain framework with a focus on small-scale livestock producers, targeting an audience of project design teams and policymakers. Small-scale livestock producers are important actors in food production, human health and management of landscapes and animal genetic resources. However, they face a number of challenges, which hamper their productivity, access to market, and competitiveness vis-à-vis their larger counterparts. By integrating the concepts of value addition and the three dimensions of sustainability, the sustainable food value chain framework not only addresses questions concerning the competitiveness, inclusion and empowerment of small-scale producers, but also incorporates the cross-cutting issues that are increasingly embedded in development projects. These guidelines take the user through the different steps of value chain development, highlighting the particularities of the smallholder livestock sector, such as multi-functionality, specific production cycles or food safety issues, through concrete examples.
Download or read book FAO Challenges and Opportunities in a Global World written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume identifies the challenges and opportunities facing food and agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda, presents solutions for a more sustainable world and shows how FAO has been working in recent years to support its Member Nations in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Approaches to Antimicrobial Use in Livestock Farming written by Gareth Enticott and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security 2021 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture underpins the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people – most of them in low-income developing countries – and remains a key driver of development. At no other point in history has agriculture been faced with such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks, interacting in a hyperconnected world and a precipitously changing landscape. And agriculture continues to absorb a disproportionate share of the damage and loss wrought by disasters. Their growing frequency and intensity, along with the systemic nature of risk, are upending people’s lives, devastating livelihoods, and jeopardizing our entire food system. This report makes a powerful case for investing in resilience and disaster risk reduction – especially data gathering and analysis for evidence informed action – to ensure agriculture’s crucial role in achieving the future we want.
Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions. The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
Download or read book Innovation Platforms for Agricultural Development written by Iddo Dror and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and action towards the realization of agricultural development outcomes. This book enhances the body of knowledge of IPs by focusing on mature IPs in agricultural systems research, including the crop and livestock sectors, and innovations in farmer cooperatives and agricultural extension services. Resulting from an international IP case study competition, the examples reported will help the many actors involved with agricultural IPs worldwide reflect on their actions and achievements (or failures), and find tools to share their experience. Chapters feature case studies from Central Africa, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nicaragua and Uganda. Authors reflect critically on the impact of IPs and showcase their progress, providing an important sourcebook and inspiration for students, researchers and professionals.
Download or read book Livestock to 2020 written by Christopher L. Delgado and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1999 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The livestock revolution; Recent transformation of livestock food demand; Accompanying transformation of livestock supply; Projections of future demand and supply to 2020; Implications of the livestock revolution for world trade and food prices; Nutrition, food security, and poverty alleviation; Environmental sustainability; Public health; Technology needs and prospects; Taking stock and moving forward.
Download or read book Investing in Animal Health Research to Alleviate Poverty written by Brian D. Perry and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
Download or read book Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation Intersections between Public Health Intellectual Property and Trade written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.
Download or read book Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies promoting pro-poor agricultural growth are the key to helping countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals especially the goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. The public sector, private sector, and civil society organizations are working to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector to reduce rural poverty and sustain the natural resource base. The pathways involve participation by rural communities, science and technology, knowledge generation and further learning, capacity enhancement, and institution building. Sustainable land management (SLM) an essential component of such policies will help to ensure the productivity of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and hydrology. SLM will also support a range of ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. The 'Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook' provides a knowledge repository of tested practices and innovative resource management approaches that are currently being tested. The diverse menu of options represents the current state of the art of good land management practices. Section one identifies the need and scope for SLM and food production in relation to cross-sector issues such as freshwater and forest resources, regional climate and air quality, and interactions with biodiversity conservation and increasingly valuable ecosystem services. Section two categorizes the diversity of land management systems globally and the strategies for improving household livelihoods in each system type. Section three presents a range of investment notes that summarize good practice, as well as innovative activity profiles that highlight design of successful or innovative investments. Section four identifies easy-to-access, Web-based resources relevant for land and natural resource managers. The 'Sourcebook' is a living document that will be periodically updated and expanded as new material and findings become available on good land management practices. This book will be of interest to project managers and practitioners working to enhance land and natural resource management in developing countries.
Download or read book COVID 19 and global food security Two years later written by McDermott, John and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected. In COVID-19 & Global Food Security: Two Years Later, the editors bring together contributions from new IFPRI research, blogs, and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub to examine the pandemic’s effects on poverty, food security, nutrition, and health around the world. This volume presents key lessons learned on food security and food system resilience in 2020 and 2021 and assesses the effectiveness of policy responses to the crisis. Looking forward, the authors consider how the pandemic experience can inform both recovery and longer-term efforts to build more resilient food systems.
Download or read book Sustainable healthy diets written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the detrimental environmental impact of current food systems, and the concerns raised about their sustainability, there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental impacts. These diets also need to be socio-culturally acceptable and economically accessible for all. Acknowledging the existence of diverging views on the concepts of sustainable diets and healthy diets, countries have requested guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on what constitutes sustainable healthy diets. These guiding principles take a holistic approach to diets; they consider international nutrition recommendations; the environmental cost of food production and consumption; and the adaptability to local social, cultural and economic contexts. This publication aims to support the efforts of countries as they work to transform food systems to deliver on sustainable healthy diets, contributing to the achievement of the SDGs at country level, especially Goals 1 (No Poverty), 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 13 (Climate Action).
