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Dec 2021Aug 2022

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security Pillar of the AAAP

Improving adaptation of the livestock sub-sector to the climate change risks is therefore an imperative for achieving increased livestock production and productivity, transforming them into quality food for animal and human consumption, accessing markets for final products and integrating the...

Jan 2022Jul 2025

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action

Tomorrow’s food insecurity and malnutrition, however, can be overcome today by early actions and solutions that increase the resilience and adaptive capacities of pastoralist communities facing climate threats. Jameel Observatory adopt a community of practice approach which was launched in Kenya...

Jan 2021Dec 2023

Inclusive red meat value chains for women and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa (K'LUSA)

Most rural households in Zimbabwe and Malawi depend on smallholder agriculture and livestock husbandry to meet food and nutritional security goals and improve their livelihoods. However, due to the low level of public and private investment in the livestock sector, livestock-keeping households...

May 2022Apr 2025

Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Poultry disease in Burkina Faso is a major constraint to productivity and can negatively affect human health. Training of poultry producers and sellers on better farm and market practices, and effective business models that enhance value chain linkages can improve the safety and productivity of the...

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...

Aug 2018Jul 2021

Building capacity for institutionalizing food safety tracking in African Union member states

This project responds to the need to prioritize investment in food safety in Africa where the burden posed by food safety challenges is the greatest and the urgency for action the highest. The project will develop a set of composite indicators to capture the multi-sectoral nature and impacts of...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

Jan 2015Dec 2016

mPig: Mobile SMS learning for pigs - An innovative information sharing platform for smallholder pig value chain actors in Uganda

This project will support the CGIAR Research Project on Livestock and Fish by piloting innovative methods to disseminate information to pig value chain actors to increase pig growth and reproductive performance on farm, improve market access for poor value chain actors and ultimately improve food...

Dec 2014Jan 2019

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...

Oct 2011Sep 2012

Mobilization of livestock research and extension for food security and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

Where, why and how The project takes place in 2 provinces in Mozambique: 1 district in Gaza in the South and 2 districts in Tete in the centre of the country. The project aims to introduce the innovation platform approach to better link all the players in the cattle and goat value chain in order to...

Sep 2010Aug 2014

Reducing the impact of infectious diseases on village poultry production in Ethiopia

Chickens have a high socio-economic value and are important to those (often landless) people who do not own cattle, sheep, or goats. Poultry production is particularly important to women, who often own and manage the chickens and control cash from sales. The resulting income is often used to support education of children.

Dec 2009Dec 2010

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Household Food Security in Kenya and Tanzania

Project Objectives The general objective of the project (being implemented in Kenya and Tanzania) will be to develop practical strategies for increasing women’s benefits from livestock value chains in improving household food, income and nutrition security. The specific objectives include the following: (i) Examine the role of livestock in improving food security and as a coping mechanisms during food deficit periods for vulnerable households