Livestock

Peste des petits ruminants

Peste des petits ruminants virus causes a highly infectious disease of small ruminants that is endemic across Africa, the Middle East and large regions of Asia. The virus is considered to be a major obstacle to the development of sustainable agriculture across the developing world and has recently been targeted by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for eradication with the aim of global elimination of the disease by 2030.

Publication Date:

01/12/2015

Author(s): S. Parida, M. Muniraju, M. Mahapatra & et al

Source: Veterinary Microbiology

Vol:

181

Issue:

1-2

pp:

90-106

Tags:

Livestock, Animal Diseases, Viral Diseases, Vaccination, Goats, Sheep

Environment

Compendium on Environment Statistics of Pakistan 2015

As an inescapable concomitant with the traditional route of economic development, Pakistan has been facing natural resource degradation and pollution problems. The unsavory spectacle of air pollution, water contamination and other macro environmental impacts such as water logging, land degradation and desertification, are on rise. All this, in conjunction with rapid growth in population, have been instrumental to the expanding tentacles of poverty.

Publication Date:

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Source: Government of Pakistan

pp:

Tags:

Environment, Statistics, Pakistan, Air Pollution, Water Quality, Deforestation, Forests, Solid Waste, Agriculture, Livestock, Energy, Electricity, Land Use, Urbanisation

Forests

Australia's bushfires leave trail of death and destruction

Fourteen bushfires burning across southern Australia have killed two people, thousands of animals, and destroyed 16 homes, and authorities on Thursday said they feared the toll could rise.

Publication Date:

27/11/2015

Source: Planet Ark (Australia)

Tags:

Forests, Forest Fires, Australia, Heat Waves, Farmers, Livestock

Climate Change

Rajasthan's women farmers beat climate change, global warming

As France gears up to welcome over 40,000 delegates, including world leaders like US President Barack Obama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping for the 2015 United

Publication Date:

27/11/2015

Source: Times Of India (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Rajasthan, Climate Change, Farmers, Global Warming, COP 21 (Paris), Livestock, Soil Erosion, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation

Wildlife

Wildlife Conservation Society favours fresh approach to relocation of leopards

A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India Program on human-leopard interactions in India calls for a shift in management focus, from current reactive practices such as removal

Publication Date:

26/11/2015

Author(s): Ignatius Pereira

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Karnataka, Leopard, Relocation, Livestock, Lion, Tiger, People - Animal Conflicts, Wildlife

Natural Disasters

The impact of disasters on agriculture and food security

This study assesses the impact of medium to large scale natural hazards and disasters on the agriculture sector and subsectors in developing countries between 2003 and 2013, focusing on direct physical damage and indirect economic losses.

Publication Date:

26/11/2015

Source: FAO

Tags:

Natural Disasters, Agriculture, Food Security, Developing Countries, India, Droughts, Crops, Livestock

Environment

Meat tax far less unpalatable than government thinks, research finds

Taxing meat to simultaneously tackle climate change and improve global health would be far less unpalatable than governments think, according to new research.

Publication Date:

25/11/2015

Source: Guardian (UK)

Tags:

Environment, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Health Effects, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Livestock, Farmers, Subsidies

Land

Economics of land degradation and improvement: a global assessment for sustainable development

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands.

Publication Date:

24/11/2015

Author(s): Ephraim Nkonya, Alisher Mirzabaev, Joachim von Braun

Source: Springer

Tags:

Land Degradation, Land Use, Biomass, Remote Sensing, Grasslands, Livestock, Sustainable Development, Ecosystem Services, India, Global

Natural Disasters