This policy brief provides key insights about risks and opportunities for goat keeping in Zambia and presents recommendations for improving the goat value chains.

Focusing on biodiversity, biosafety and bioinformatics offers a multi-dimensional strategy for effective virus risk management.

How do we reconcile our nutritional needs and our taste for animal-based foods with environmental sustainability?

Antimicrobials have become one of the most misused medicines. As a result, pathogenic bacteria that cause infectious diseases have started to adapt and have become resistant.

This policy brief outlines policy actions for management of urban livestock production and identifies the existing knowledge gaps.

Livestock Resources for Food Security in the Light of Climate Change 

Every food item we eat needs water for its production, but different foods require different amount of water.

Presented at the Agri4D 2013 conference at the session on Transforming Gender Roles in Agriculture: - Ways Forward

Global farmers face an enormous challenge to satisfy a rapidly growing demand for food, feed, fibres and fuels. At the same time the environmental sustainability of production methods is being...

This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.