Keeping animals alive and healthy to hold hunger at bay
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is embarking on its biggest ever livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan, aiming to protect over 9 million animals this year to combat increasingly frequent outbreaks of diseases. Why focus on livestock? Over 65 percent...

N’Djamena, 11 mai 2018 - le Ministère de l’élevage et des productions animales et l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) publient les résultats du recensement général (RGE) de l’élevage au Tchad qui s’est déroulé de 2012 à 2015 sur toute l’étendue du territoire national.
Désormais, le Tchad dispose des données fiables pour mettre en place une politique adéquate en matière d’élevage pour le développement du secteur. C’est ce que montrent les principaux résultats du recensement général de l’élevage annoncés par le Ministre de l’élevage...

Millions of people rely on the Sahel’s drylands, whose livelihoods depend on livestock production. However, comparably lower investments were recently made towards people in these areas that, in addition to chronic poverty, food insecurity and conflict, have suffered from the effects...

Pastoralism can be considered as one of the best examples of agroecology in practice”, says Hassan Roba, himself a pastoralist and now working with the Christensen Fund, at the second International Symposium on Agroecology that took place at the FAO...

South Africa’s agricultural sector is responsible for devastating impacts on the environment. Most South African farms are privately owned, commercial operations, a fact that has somewhat naturally led to a one-dimensional approach to management: they’re out to make a profit. Many...