Animal Care

HK bans poultry products from bird flu--hit Japan prefecture

HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong food safety authority said on Thursday that it has banned the import of poultry meat and products from a prefecture in southwestern Japan following an outbreak of bird fl

Publication Date: 
23/12/2016
China Daily
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Animal Care, Avian Flu, Influenza, Japan, Hong Kong, Livestock, Poultry
Water Resources

An assessment of integrated watershed management in Ethiopia

Sustainable participatory watershed management is an approach promoted by the Ethiopian government to restore natural resources and agricultural productivity across the country.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2016
Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher, Dereje Assefa Abera, Girmay Gebresamuel, Meredith Giordano, Simon Langan
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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Watershed Development, Ethiopia, Soil Erosion, Biodiversity, Groundwater Recharge, Surface Water, Livestock, Crops, Farmers
Climate Change

Alarming food insecurity in several areas of East Africa due to severe drought

Widespread drought severely affects crops and rangelands in East Africa and food insecurity is expected to significantly deteriorate by early 2017. Major areas of concern are central and southern Somalia, southeastern Ethiopia, northern and eastern Kenya, northern and eastern United Republic of Tanzania and southeastern Uganda.

Publication Date: 
20/12/2016
FAO
Tags:
Droughts, Food Security, Africa, Agriculture, Crops, Livestock, El Nino
Animal Care

Stricter Measures For Poultry Farms As H5N6 Cases Continue To Rise In South Korea

On Friday, South Korea's agriculture ministry issued a temporary nationwide standstill order for poultry farms and other related transport that took effect over the weekend.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2016
Science World Report
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Poultry, Avian Flu, Influenza, Birds, South Korea
Animal Care

Japan starts culling chickens, ducks after highly contagious bird flu strain detected

Japan has started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on farms in the north of the country, local officials said.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2016
Japan Today (Japan)
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Influenza, Avian Flu, Poultry, Japan, Birds
Livestock

Germany set to destroy 8,800 geese amid new bird flu outbreak

BERLIN – The news agency dpa reports that some 8,800 geese on two poultry farms will be culled in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein because some of the animals are infected with the b

Publication Date: 
21/11/2016
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Animal Care, Livestock, Birds, Influenza, Germany, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon

Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least 36%, partly by reducing emissions in the livestock sector through strategies such as intensification, pasture improvement, and rotational grazing.

Publication Date: 
18/11/2016
Meghan Bogaerts, Lora Cirhigiri, Ian Robinson, & et al
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
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Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Green House Gases, Cattle, Amazon, Brazil, Livestock
Natural Disasters

Extended chronology of the Cordón Caulle volcanic eruption beyond 2011 reveals toxic impacts

Aside of immediate impacts, the 2011 Puyehue–Cordón Caulle volcano (PCC) eruption also caused persisting chemical impacts. By 2012, toxicity resulted in overt dental fluorosis in deer, with bone fluoride increasing > 38-fold to 5175 ppm. Sheep, horses and cattle also succumbed to fluorosis. Due to eolian redeposition of tephra, exposure of ruminants continued, bone fluoride reached 10 396 ppm, and by 2014 skeletal fluorosis was found.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
10/11/2016
Werner T. Flueck
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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2351-2355
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Volcanic Eruptions, Fluorosis, Toxicity Studies, Cattle, Livestock, Chile, Natural Disasters
Climate Change

Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities

The projected rise in food-related greenhouse gas emissions could seriously impede efforts to limit global warming to acceptable levels. Despite that, food production and consumption have long been excluded from climate policies, in part due to concerns about the potential impact on food security.

Publication Date: 
07/11/2016
Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson & et al
Nature Climate Change
1-8
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Health Effects, Agriculture, Green House Gases, Livestock, Global Warming, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), Chemical Fertilisers
Climate Change

Smallholder dairy methodology: methodology for GHG emission reductions from smallholder dairy production systems

The dairy sector will soon be able to participate in international carbon credit markets thanks to a new methodology that lets farmers and project designers reliably document how they are reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions - a step that will open up new sources of finance for the livestock industry and help promote investment in smallhold

Publication Date: 
04/11/2016
FAO
Tags:
Green House Gases, Livestock, Agriculture, Carbon Market, Dairy Development, Emission Targets, Carbon Intensity, Land Use, Milk

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