Claire Mezoughem, Senior Livestock Analyst, [log in to unmask]). They also have useful PSD (country level production, supply and demand tables) which are helpful for country analysis.
3) Great video pulled from FAO's recent livestock policy forum held in Bangkok in August http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiT027HEXoo&feature=plcp. Congratulations to Vinod Ahuja, FAO's livestock policy officer in Bangkok.
4) FAO and partners develop joint strategies for PPR control in East Africa
FAO
recently organized two workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to work with development partners in East Africa to map out strategies to curb the economic damage caused by the deadly peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague.’ The meeting put
in motion the first steps necessary to create a regional initiative in the Horn of Africa that would prevent and control the spread of PPR across borders forward...[Read
full news]
USEFUL DOCUMENTS SENT OUT THROUGH IFAD'S COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (JOIN IT AT www.cop-ppld.net)
Training manuals on fodder production kindly shared with us by Alan Duncan and his colleagues (in response to a request sent to the CoP-PPLD Secretariat):
Forage fact sheets for livestock feed on small-scale farms:
- Lablab (Lablab purpureus cultivar Rongai)
Training Manuals:
- Training Manual on Forage Seed Production
- More Forage, more Milk: Forage Production for Small-scale Zero Grazing Systems
- Developing Forage Technologies with Smallholder Farmers - How to Grow, Manage and Use Forages and
- How to Select the Best Varieties to Offer Farmers in South east Asia
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