PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a research project which aims to learn from the ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty, applying such ‘lessons from…
PASTRES: Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience
Market-based mangrove afforestation and reforestation in Kenya and India
Dates: April 2016-April 2017 Mangroves are valued by different people in diverse ways – as places to fish, sources of fodder, protection against storms or tides, sites of tourism, or…
Livestock, Livelihoods and Health
Dates: 2014 – 2018 Livestock, Livelihoods and Health was an interdisciplinary research programme exploring diseases that can be transmitted from wild or domesticated animals to people (zoonoses). These diseases, as…
Rift Valley Fever: policies to prepare and respond
This project compared the responses to two diseases – Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in East Africa, and BSE in the UK and European Union. These so-called transboundary animal diseases are…
Veterinary Science, Transboundary Animal Diseases and Markets
This project explores changes in livestock markets in Southern Africa, and what they mean for veterinary science, diseases and livelihoods of farmers and others.