Assessing competitiveness of smallholder pig farming in the changing landscape of northwest Vietnam

Identification and implementation support of mitigation priorities and opportunities in rice-dominated landscapes

Research questions What is the net GHG balance for agriculture across Vietnam and where are emissions hotspots? What is the potential for mitigation, and where are the mitigation hotspots for rice landscapes? How do mitigation priorities and opportunities differ across farmscapes (e.g. Mekong delta...

Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos (Pestforecast)

A warmer, wetter world is likely to be sicker. The Mekong is a hotspot for human, animal and plant disease, and some of the most important are highly sensitive to climate and climate changes. These diseases impose enormous burdens on human health and the agricultural sector and hinder broader...

Joint laboratory on livestock and forage genetic resources

In 2004, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and ILRI established a joint laboratory in Beijing. The laboratory is a platform to implement joint research projects of common interest in the area of livestock and forage diversity, share technical expertise, conduct joint national or...

Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock and fish market chains in Asia and Africa

In developing countries, animal source foods support the nutrition and livelihoods of millions of rural and urban poor for whom livestock and fish value chains are also promising pathways out of poverty. Less attention has been given to the relation between animal source foods value chains and...

Reducing disease risks and improving food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam

A previous project in Vietnam ( Improving the competitiveness of pig producers in an adjusting Vietnam market ) comprehensively characterized the smallholder pig sector; that project found that pork comprises three-quarters of meat consumed and is supplied mainly by smallholders, mostly women; pork...

Using system analysis and modeling tools to develop improved feeding strategies for small-scale crop-livestock farmers in Southeast Asia

Project Objectives/Goals: The project will aim at enhancing farm feed resources by optimizing the contribution of sweet potato, legumes and other feed sources to year-round feed availability, livestock productivity and household income. Outputs: 1.Novel pig feeding systems based on sweet potato, forage legumes and other feed sources toincrease feed availability, livestock productivity and household income, under the environmental and economic constraints in the project area.

Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder

The current project seeks to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of poor livestock keepers to: select and adopt fodder options access market opportunities to enable them to improve their livelihoods The project seeks to achieve these goals in ways that will ensure...

Development and application of decision-support tools to conserve and sustainably use genetic diversity in indigenous livestock and wild relatives

Major barriers to addressing these challenges are the lack of an appropriate policy framework for the sustainable management of FAnGR and the inadequate knowledge of the value of indigenous breeds. The latter varies amongst the stakeholder groups, with farmers and breeders’ associations holding the...

Pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies

Driven by the fear of a possible human pandemic, responses to HPAI outbreaks have generally been top-down, heavy handed government interventions. Control measures have centred on stamping out which may entail large scale culling of infected flocks and in-contact flocks and the high concentration of...

Ecosystem approaches to the better management of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases in the Southeast Asia region

The Ecosystem Approaches to the Better Management of Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia (EcoZD) project worked directly with more than 100 key zoonotic emerging infectious diseases management actors across eight multi-disciplinary teams in six countries to attain project...