Impacts of livestock development investment: Documented positive impacts of livestock-related interventions in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Steven Staal, Francis Wanyoike and Peter Ballantyne

Shaping the future of livestock

FAO, Animal Production and Helath Division (AGA)

Focus: the difficult livestock issue

Tara Garnett Peter Scarborough Jessica Finch

Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices: definitions and measurement methods 

WHO/UNICEF Technical expert advisory group on nutrition monitoring (TEAM)

Gender differences in agricultural productivity: the case of Tanzania

Vanya Slavchevska

Women Empowerment in Livestock Business (WELBI): A preliminary baseline survey report on the empowerment of women agripreneurs in dairy and poultry value chains in Tanzania and Ethiopia

ILRI’s experience with the Crop and Goat Project in Tanzania from a gender perspective

Brandes, R., Saghir, P., Galie, A. and Barasa, V.

Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

Galie, A., Mulema, A., Mora Benard, A.M., Onzere, S. and Colverson, K.

Building the DigiFarm Innovation Platform – The Journey to One Million Farmers

Mercy Corps

Intensifying Inequality? Gendered Trends in Commercializing and Diversifying Smallholder Farming Systems in East Africa

Katie Tavenner, Mark van Wijk, Simon Fraval, James Hammond, Isabelle Baltenweck, Nils Teufel, Esther Kihoro, Nicoline de Haan, Jacob van Etten, Jonathan Steinke, David Baines, Pietro Carpena, Tom Skirrow, Todd Rosenstock, Christine Lamanna, Mary Ng'endo, Sabrina Chesterman, Nictor Namoi and Lucas

Women in Agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Invisible Guardians: Women manage livestock diversity

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The women’s empowerment in livestock index

Galiè, A., Teufel, N., Korir, L., Baltenweck, I., Girard, A.W., Domínguez-Salas, P. and Yount, K.M.

Animal health and welfare for a sustainable livestock sector

Ulf Magnusson, Michael Apley, Sofia Boqvist, Rebecca Doyle

Policy Brief: Animal Welfare, Trade and Sustainable Development Goals

Understanding human and other animal behaviour: Ethology, welfare and food policy

Appleby, M.C. and Mitchell, L.A.

Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

Jason R. Rohr, Christopher B. Barrett, David J. Civitello, Meggan E. Craft, Bryan Delius, Giulio A. DeLeo, Peter J. Hudson, Nicolas Jouanard, Karena H. Nguyen, Richard S. Ostfeld, Justin V. Remais, Gilles Riveau, Susanne H. Sokolow & David Tilman

Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa

R. S. Reid, D. Nkedianye, M. Y. Said, D. Kaelo, M. Neselle, O. Makui, L. Onetu, S. Kiruswa, N. Ole Kamuaro, P. Kristjanson, J. Ogutu, S. B. BurnSilver, M. J. Goldman, R. B. Boone, K. A. Galvin, N. M. Dickson, and W. C. Clark

Zoonotic Pathogen Seroprevalence in Cattle in a Wildlife–Livestock Interface, Kenya

Daniel Nthiwa, Silvia Alonso, David Odongo, Eucharia Kenya & Bernard Bett

Targeting Transmission Pathways for Emerging Zoonotic Disease Surveillance and Control

Elizabeth H. Loh Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio Kevin J. Olival Tiffany L. Bogich Christine K. Johnson Jonna A. K. Mazet William Karesh Peter Daszak

Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface

James M. Hassell Michael Begon Melissa J. Ward Eric M. Fèvre

No food security without food safety: Lessons from livestock related research

Jessie L. Vipham, Kebede Amenu, Silvia Alonso, Jean-Baptiste Ndahetuye, Yacob Zereyesusa, Kizito Nishimwe, Erin Bowers, Dirk Maier, Keshav Sah, Arie Havelaar, Delia Grace

Food safety and public health implications of growing urban food markets

Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Grace, D., Alonso, S., Lindahl, Johanna F., Mutua, F., Haggblade, S.

Why food safety matters to Africa: Making the case for policy action

Jaffee, S., Henson, S., Grace, D., Ambrosio, M., Berthe, F.

Informal milk markets in Kenya, Tanzania and Assam (India): An overview of their status, policy context, and opportunities for policy innovation to improve health and safety

Blackmore, E., Guarín, A., Alonso, S., Grace, D., Vorley, B.

Leveraging informal markets for health and nutrition security

Silvia Alonso, Paula Dominguez-Salas

Whence the next pandemic? The intersecting global geography of the animal-human interface, poor health systems and air transit centrality reveals conduits for high-impact spillover

Preventing the next pandemic: Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission

Moving health to the heart of agri-food policies; mitigating risk from our food systems

Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States of America

Hotez, P.J.

Endemic zoonoses in the tropics: A public health problem hiding in plain sight

Infectious diseases and agriculture

DUPLICATE One Health in action: Operational aspects of an integrated surveillance system for zoonoses in western Kenya

Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps

Tackling antimicrobial resistance (‎AMR)‎ together: working paper 5.0: enhancing the focus on gender and equity

Assessing knowledge, beliefs and practices related to the consumption of sheep and goat meat in Senegal

Gender power in Kenyan dairy: Cows, commodities, and commercialization

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of pork consumers in Uganda

The role of gender dimensions in the transmission and control of Rift Valley fever in Uganda

High prevalence of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection among abattoir workers in Kamuli District, Eastern Uganda

Clapping with two hands: Transforming gender relations and zoonotic disease risks through community conversations in rural Ethiopia

Isolation and identification of Listeria species along the milk value chain in one region of Tanzania

Gender perspectives on food safety and nutrition in informal small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia

Poverty and gender aspects of food safety and informal markets in sub-Saharan Africa

Gender roles and food safety in 20 informal livestock and fish value chains

Gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment for food safety.

Helping to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health.

The gender dimensions of a pig disease: African swine fever in Uganda

Dione, M.M., Ochago, R., Ouma, E.A., Lule, P. and Birungi, R.

Gender issues in human, animal and plant health using an ecohealth perspective

Description of risk factors in the formation of hydrocarbons during the traditional fish smoking in Abidjan

Quantifying the transmission of antimicrobial resistance at the human and livestock interface with genomics

No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections: Report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Quantitatively evaluating the cross-sectoral and one health impact of interventions: A scoping review and case study of antimicrobial resistance

Nichola R. Naylor, Jo Lines, Jeff Waage, Barbara Wieland, Gwenan M.Knight

A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance

Are food animals responsible for transfer of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli or their resistance determinants to human populations? A systematic review

Antimicrobial resistance in South East Asia: Time to ask the right questions

Kakkar, M., et al.

Mitigating the risks posed by intensification in livestock production: The examples of antimicrobial resistance and zoonoses

Gilbert, W., et al.

Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations

Pulling Together to Beat Superbugs: Knowledge and Implementation Gaps in Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance

Drug-Resistant Infections: A Threat to Our Economic Future

Benefits of a one health approach: An example using Rift Valley fever. 

Rostal, M.K., et al.

Successes and challenges of the One Health approach in Kenya over the last decade

Peninah M. Munyua, M. Kariuki Njenga, Eric M. Osoro, Clayton O. Onyango, Austine O. Bitek, Athman Mwatondo, Mathew K. Muturi, Norah Musee, Godfrey Bigogo, Elkanah Otiang, Fredrick Ade, Sara A. Lowther, Robert F. Breiman, John Neatherlin, Joel Montgomery & Marc-Alain Widdowson

The urgent need for integrated science to fight COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Moradian, N. et al.

The challenges of investigating antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam – what benefits does a One Health approach offer the animal and human health sectors?

Mitchell, M.E.V., Alders, R., Unger, F., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Trang Thi Huyen Le and Toribio, J.-A.

The One Health approach - why is it so important?

Mackenzie, J.S. and Jeggo, M

One Health in action: Operational aspects of an integrated surveillance system for zoonoses in western Kenya

Falzon, L.C., et al.

Emerging pandemics: Lesson for one‐health approach

Krishna P. Acharya, Supram H. Subramanya, Dinesh Neupane

What is a healthy sustainable eating pattern?

Garnett, T., Scarborough, P. and Finch, J.

Risk factors for human disease emergence

Taylor, L.H., Latham, S.M., and Woolhouse, M.E.

Economics of brucellosis impact and control in low-income countries

McDermott, J., Grace, D. and Zinsstag, J.

Livestock and zoonotic disease: Of emerged human disease epidemics, have 75% been of animal origin? And overall, are 60% of human pathogens zoonotic?

Livestock disease production burdens: Does disease cause the preventable death of one in four young ruminants and one in ten mature ruminants each year?

Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots

Grace, D., Mutua, F., Ochungo, P., Kruska, R., Jones, K., Brierley, L., Lapar, L., Said, M., Herrero, M., Phuc, P.M., Thao, N.B., Akuku, I. and Ogutu, F.

The business case for One Health

Grace, D.

Zoonoses - From panic to planning

Grace, D., Holley, C., Jones, K., Leach, M., Marks, N., Scoones, I., Welburn, S. and Wood, J.

Decision-support tool for prevention and control of Rift Valley fever epizootics in the Greater Horn of Africa

Locating poor livestock keepers at the global level for research and development targeting.

Thornton, P.K., Kruska, R.L., Henninger, N., Kristjanson, P.M., Reid, R.S., Robinson, T.P.

Guiding Principles for Aid Effectiveness, Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Challenges facing women in the zero grazing livestock production system in Kenya: A case of Karuri location Kiambu County

Mwangi, K. W.

Women, livestock ownership and markets: Bridging the gender gap in eastern and southern Africa

Livestock and Women's Livelihoods: A Review of the Recent Evidence

Gender, livestock assets, resource management, and food security: lessons from the SR-CRSP

Valdivia C.

The importance of women's status for child nutrition in developing countries

Household Decisions, Gender, and Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research

Quisumbing, Agnes R.

Engendering development through gender equality in rights, resources, and voice

Prospects for Livestock-Based Livelihoods in Africa’s Drylands

Small-scale poultry and food security in resource-poor settings: A review.

Livestock’s long shadow: Environmental issues and options

Cattle as assets: assessment of non-market benefits from cattle in smallholder Kenyan crop- livestock systems

A research review of village chicken production constraints and opportunities in Zimbabwe

Smallholder dairy production and markets: A comparison of production systems in Zambia, Kenya and Sri Lanka

Pastoralism as shrewd managers of risk and resilience in the horn of Africa

World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism

Minding the stock: Bringing public policy to bear on livestock policy

Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world

Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects

Research on livestock, livelihoods and innovation

Global Livestock Production Systems

The State of Food and Agriculture: Livestock in the Balance

Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: Understanding the trade-offs

Guidelines for measuring household and individual dietary diversity

Current Information Gaps in Micronutrient Research, Programs and Policy: How Can We Fill Them?

Invited review: Role of livestock in human nutrition and health for poverty reduction in developing countries

Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate

Brain food: Clever eating

Milk and dairy products in human nutrition

Eggs: the uncracked potential for improving maternal and young child nutrition among the world’s poor

Food composition tables in resource-poor settings: exploring current limitations and opportunities, with a focus on animal-source foods in sub-Saharan Africa

Comparing the value of protein sources for maternal and child nutrition

Child height gain is associated with consumption of animal-source foods in livestock-owning households in Western Kenya.

Meat supplementation improves growth, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes in Kenyan children.

Animal Milk Sustains Micronutrient Nutrition and Child Anthropometry Among Pastoralists in Samburu, Kenya. 

The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life

Socio-economic impact of Smallholder Livestock Development Project

Smallholder poultry model for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh: a review of evidence on impact

Impact of smallholder livestock development project in some selected areas of rural Bangladesh

Impact of women dairy co-operative societies on income and employment of women in Begusarai District of Bihar

A calf, a house, a business of one’s own: Microcredit, asset accumulation, and economic empowerment in GL CRSP projects in Ethiopia and Ghana

Women: The key to food security

Household food security and child nutrition: the interaction of income and gender of household head

The Changing Nature of gender roles in the drylands of the Horn and East Africa: implications for DRR programming

Livestock and gender: a winning pair - Capitalisation of experiences on the contribution of livestock projects to gender Issues

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

Herrero, M., Havlík, P., Valin, H., Notenbaert, A., Rufino, M.C., Thornton, P.K., Blümmel, M., Weiss, F., Grace, D. and Obersteiner, M.

Reducing Enteric Methane for improving food security and livelihoods project

FAO

Conflict management, decentralization and agropastoralism in dryland West Africa

Turner, M.D., Ayantunde, A.A., Patterson, K.P. and Patterson, E.D

Greening Livestock: Assessing the potential of payment for environmental services in livestock inclusive agricultural production systems in developing countries

Silvestri, S., P. Osano, J. de Leeuw, M. Herrero, P. Ericksen, J. Kariuki, J. Njuki and A. Notenbaert.

Policy instruments for sustainable land management: the case of highland smallholders in Ethiopia

Shiferaw, B. and Holden, S.T.

Biodiversity conservation and agricultural sustainability: towards a new paradigm of “ecoagriculture” landscapes

Scherr, S.J. and McNeely, J.A.

Nitrogen cycling efficiencies through resource-poor African crop-livestock systems

Rufino, M.C., E.C. Rowe, R. J. Delve, K.E. Giller.

Strengthening natural resource governance in Garba Tula

Roba, G., Gibbons, S. and Mahad, Y.

Crop-livestock interactions in the West African Drylands

Powell, J.M., R.A. Pearson and P.H. Hiernaux.

Managing mobility: the legitimization of transhumance

Niamir-Fuller, N.

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

Liu, J., You, L., Amini, M., Obersteiner, M., Herrero, M., Zehnder, A.J.B. and Yang, H.

Modern and Mobile: the future of livestock production in Africa’s drylands

IIED and SOS Sahel.

Crop-animal interactions in mixed farming systems in Asia

Devendra, C. and D. Thomas.

Improving governance of pastoral lands: implementing the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security

Davies, J., P. Herrera, J. Ruiz-Mirazo, J. Mohamed-Katere, I. Hannam and E. Nuesri.

Staying Maasai? Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands

Editors: Homewood, Katherine, Kristjanson, Patti, Trench, P.

Risk and social change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

McPeak, J.G. P.D. Little and C. R. Doss.

Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Thornton, P.K. and Herrero, M.

Climate change through a gendered lens: examining livestock holder food security

McKune, S.L., E. C. Borrensen, A.G. Young, T.D. A. Ryley, S.L. Russo, A.D. Camara, M. Coleman and E.P. Ryan.

The governance of rangelands

Herrera, P.M., J Davies and P. Manzano Baena.

Tackling climate change through livestock

Gerber, P.J., Steinfeld, H., Henderson, B., Mottet, A., Opio, C., Dijkman, J., Falcucci, A. and Tempio, G.

Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production – a review of technical options for non-CO2 emissions

Hristov, A.N., Oh, J., Lee, C., Meinen, R., Montes, F., Ott, T., Firkins, J., Rotz, A., Dell, C., Adesogan, A., Yang, W., Tricario, J., Kebreab, E., Waghorn, G., Dijkstra, J., and Oosting, S.

Supporting low emissions development in the Ethiopian dairy cattle sector – reducing enteric methane for food security and livelihoods

FAO and New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

Low emissions development of the beef cattle sector in Uruguay – reducing enteric methane for food security and livelihoods

FAO and New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

Herrero, M., B. Henderson, P. Havlik, PK Thornton, RT Conant, P. Smith, S. Wirsenius, A.N Hristov, P. Gerber, M. Gill, K. Butterbach-Bahl, H. Valin, T. Garnett and E. Stehfest.

Fact Check 5: Livestock and Climate Change

Salmon, G.

Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate.

Mottet, A., Haan, C. de., Falcucci, A., Tempio, G., Opio, C. and Gerber, P.

Livestock and the environment: what have we learned in the past decade?

Herrero, M., Wirsenius, S., Henderson, B., Rigolot, C., Thornton, P., Havlik, P., de Boer, I., and Gerber, P.

Livestock/animal assets buffer the impact of conflict-related traumatic events on mental health symptoms for rural women

Glass, N., Perrin, N. A., Kohli, A., & Remy, M.

Women’s participation in environmental decision-making: Quasi-experimental evidence from northern Kenya

Grillos, T.

Improving animal health and livestock productivity to reduce poverty

J.-P. Pradère

Livestock and economy. Does the livestock sector make up 40% of total agricultural GDP globally?

Pastoralism Development in the Sahel : A Road to Stability?

De Haan, C., Dubern, E., Garancher, B., and Quintero, C.

Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems

M Herrero 1, P K Thornton, A M Notenbaert, S Wood, S Msangi, H A Freeman, D Bossio, J Dixon, M Peters, J van de Steeg, J Lynam, P Parthasarathy Rao, S Macmillan, B Gerard, J McDermott, C Seré, M Rosegrant

The role of family poultry in poverty alleviation, food security and the promotion of gender equality in rural Africa

Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective

FAO

Strategic review of livestock in the CGIAR

CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council

Relevance of rural poultry production in developing countries with special reference to Africa

Akinola, L.A.F. and Essien, A.

Livestock and livelihoods: Do livestock support the livelihoods of around one billion poor people globally?

Diversification and sophistication of livestock products: The case of African countries.

Yameogo, N.D., Nabassaga, T., Ncube, M.

Food safety and informal markets: Animal products in sub-Saharan Africa

Roesel, K. and Grace, D.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025

OECD and FAO

Understanding Livestock Yield Gaps for Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and the Environment

Herrero, M., Di Mayberry, D., van de Steeg, J., Phelan, D., Ash, A., Diyezee, K., Robinson, T., Henderson, B., Gilbert, M., van Wijk, M., Godde, C., Blummel, M., Prestwidge, D., Stephenson, E., Power, B., and Parsons, D.

World Livestock 2011: Livestock in food security

FAO

Milk in the Data: Food Security Impacts from a Livestock Field Experiment in Zambia

Jodlowski, M., Winter-Nelson., A, Baylis, K., Goldsmith, P.

People, pathogens and our planet: the economics of one health

World Bank

Risk factors for human disease emergence

L H Taylor, S M Latham, M E Woolhouse

What is the connection between infectious diseases in humans and livestock?

Lee-Gammage, S., Atherton, E., Head, J., and Stewart, S.

World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010

Arie H. Havelaar, Martyn D. Kirk, Paul R. Torgerson,Herman J. Gibb,Tine Hald, Robin J. Lake,Nicolas Praet,David C. Bellinger,Nilanthi R. de Silva, Neyla Gargouri, Niko Speybroeck, Amy Cawthorne,Colin Mathers,Claudia Stein,Frederick J. Angulo,Brecht Devleesschauwer.

Animal production and antimicrobial resistance in the clinic

Robinson, T.P., Wertheim, H.F.L., Kakkar, M., Kariuki, S., Bu, D. and Price, L.B.

Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: final report and recommendations

The review on antimicrobial resistance, chaired by Jim O'Neill

Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals

Boeckel, T.P. Van, Brower, C., Gilbert, M., Grenfell, B.T., Levin, S.A., Robinson, T.P., Teillant, A. and Laxminarayan, R.

Sheep keeping can reduce anaemia in women

Flores-Martinez, A., Zanello, G., Shankar, B., & Poole, N.

Targeted training of market actors can improve food safety even in traditional meat markets

Delia Grace 1, Morenike Dipeolu, Janice Olawoye, Ernest Ojo, Stella Odebode, Michael Agbaje, Gabriel Akindana, Thomas Randolph

Mitigating the risks of zoonotic disease in animals can be economically viable, even when human health gains are not calculated

Fadiga, M.L., Okike, I. and Bett, B. Perry, B., Randolph, T., Bett, B., Grace, D., Globig, A., Fadiga, M., Sones, K., Henning, J., Pali, P., Poole, J., Hannah, H., Ekanem, E., Abdu, P. and Molokwu, C.

Controlling zoonotic diseases, even just vaccination, can have strong and economically viable benefits for both livestock productivity and human health

McDermott, J., Grace, D. and Zinsstag, J. Roth, F., Zinsstag, J., Orkhon, D., Chimed-Ochir, G., Hutton, G., Cosivi, O., Carrin, G., Otte, J.

Receiving livestock assets by households in conflict affected area can improve women’s mental health

Glass N, Perrin NA, Kohli A, Remy MM