Forests

Ethiopia: Call for Dwindling Deforestation Pace

The deforestation activities have been outpacing the reforestation effort in turn it is costing the nation greatly, said an official from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Publication Date: 
20/07/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Ethiopia, Afforestation, Livestock, Soil Erosion, Africa
Agriculture

Price distortions in Indian agriculture

The current study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices.

Publication Date: 
18/07/2017
Shweta Saini, Ashok Gulati
The World Bank
Tags:
Agriculture, Trade, India, Crops, Livestock, Statistics, Consumption Patterns, Food Prices
Agriculture

Dairy farmers in Kenya embrace Silage to beat Climate Change

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- James Mwenda picks a bunch of napier grass from a pile harvested from his three acres in Meru County, eastern Kenya, and chops into small pieces using a chaff cutter.

Publication Date: 
17/07/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Agriculture, Livestock, Climate Change, Kenya, Africa, Farmers
Climate Change

East Africa: prolonged and severe drought exacerbates food insecurity

Poor rains across East Africa have worsened hunger and left crops scorched, pastures dry and thousands of livestock dead - according to an alert released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Publication Date: 
14/07/2017
FAO
Tags:
Droughts, Food Security, Africa, Crops, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Agriculture, Livestock
Wildlife

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However, there has been little effort to fully quantify the extent of large carnivore range contractions, which hinders our ability to understand the roles and relative drivers of such trends. Here we present and analyse a newly constructed and comprehensive set of large carnivore range contraction maps.

Publication Date: 
12/07/2017
Christopher Wolf, William J. Ripple
Royal Society Open Science
1-11
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, Wolves, Lion, Endangered Species, People - Animal Conflicts, Land Use, Livestock, Maharashtra, India, Asia, Africa, Mammals, Hunting, Poaching
Animal Care

Kenya on high alert to prevent new rinderpest outbreak

NAIROBI, (Xinhua) -- Kenya is on high alert to prevent a looming rinderpest outbreak in the country, a senior official said on Friday.

Publication Date: 
05/07/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Animal Diseases, Kenya, Farmers, Somalia, Africa
Animal Care

Togo reports H5N1 bird flu in southern part of the country: OIE

Togo reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu at a poultry farm in the southern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing

Publication Date: 
05/07/2017
Angola Press
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Avian Flu, Influenza, Togo, Birds, Africa
Animal Care

Role of oxytocin in improving the welfare of farm animals

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the welfare of farm animals, which have been evaluated using behavioral and physiological measures. However, so far, the measures have almost always been used to estimate poor welfare. In this review, firstly we focus on how oxytocin (OT) relates to positive social behavior, pleasure, and stress tolerance, and second on which management factors stimulate OT release.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
04/07/2017
Siyu Chen, Shusuke Sato
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
30
4
449-454
Tags:
Animal Care, Drugs, Cattle, Livestock, Research
Climate Change

Tanzania: Scores of Nomadic Families Impacted

Arusha — Hundreds of families of nomadic pastoralists living in the lowland areas of Arumeru District are among scores of herdsmen heavily impacted by climate change, a phenomenon associated with d

Publication Date: 
04/07/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Droughts, Livestock, Rainfall, Extreme Weater Events, Africa, Tanzania
Agriculture

FG to pay Kano poultry farmers N438m compensation

The Federal Ministry of Finance will soon commence the payment of N438 million compensation to poultry farmers who lost their birds to avian flu influenza in Kano.

Publication Date: 
03/07/2017
Guardian (Nigeria)
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Avian Flu, Influenza, Compensation, Farmers, Africa, Agriculture

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