Download this briefing (PDF) The costs of responding to outbreaks of transmissible and infectious diseases, especially zoonotic infections that can infect both animals and people, can be far greater than…
Rift Valley fever in Kenya: policies to prepare and respond (briefing)
Rift Valley fever in Kenya: Policies to prepare and respond
STEPS Working Paper 82 Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic infection incompletely understood by scientists, pastoralists and policy makers. The irregular intervals at which outbreaks occur make it difficult…
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
This book is available to read Open Access from the publisher’s website. Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins Earthscan / Routledge, July 2012 Read this book…
Time to outbreed animal science? A cattle-breeding system exploiting structural unpredictability: the WoDaaBe herders in Niger
Cutting-edge research on agri-food systems contends that mainstream agricultural science is ill-equipped to address issues of complexity, diversity and uncertainty. The paper tackles this issue looking at animal breeding, an…