Current and future challenges and opportunities for livestock farming in West Africa: Perspectives from the case of Senegal

R Eeswaran, AP Nejadhashemi, A Faye, D Min… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Livestock farming is a livelihood activity and is critically important for the food and nutritional
security of the majority of the population in West African countries, including Senegal …

[HTML][HTML] Zoonotic diseases and the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic impacts on Somaliland's livestock exports to Saudi Arabia

N Mtimet, F Wanyoike, KM Rich, I Baltenweck - Global Food Security, 2021 - Elsevier
The livestock sector plays an important socioeconomic role in the Somaliland economy,
particularly through revenues from exports. The partial ban on livestock imports from …

Tracing spatiotemporal changes in agricultural and non-agricultural trade networks of India

S Kulkarni, R Dave, U Bhatia, R Kumar - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The evolving international economic instability and international trade relationship demand
a nation to move towards a self-reliant integrated system at a sub-national scale to address …

Unraveling the epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis using whole-genome sequencing combined with environmental and demographic data

G Rossi, BBJ Shih, NF Egbe, P Motta… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
When studying the dynamics of a pathogen in a host population, one crucial question is
whether it transitioned from an epidemic (ie, the pathogen population and the number of …

Knowledge, perceptions, and practices around zoonotic diseases among actors in the livestock trade in the Lake Victoria crescent ecosystem in East Africa

H Majiwa, SA Bukachi, D Omia, EM Fèvre - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Zoonotic diseases such as anthrax, rabies, brucellosis, and Rift Valley fever
pose a direct threat to health and undercut livelihoods in the communities in which they …

Multivariate characterisation of morpho-biometric traits of indigenous helmeted Guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) in Nigeria

A Yakubu, P Jegede, M Wheto, AJ Shoyombo… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
This study was conducted to characterise phenotypically helmeted Guinea fowls in three
agro-ecologies in Nigeria using multivariate approach. Eighteen biometric characters, four …

Cattle ranching and farmer-herder conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the conditions for successes and failures in Northern Ghana

A Ahmed, ED Kuusaana - African Security, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
To address the prevalence of farmer-herder conflicts, Ghana has recently adopted a national
cattle ranching project to establish ranches. Through a qualitative approach, this study …

Impacts of climate change on regional cattle trade in the central corridor of Africa

A Amin, A Wane, I Kone, M Krah, A N'Goran - Regional environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The impacts of climate change on agricultural systems in West Africa have been analyzed
extensively. However, few studies have focused on livestock systems. Using export data for …

Multiple species animal movements: network properties, disease dynamics and the impact of targeted control actions

NC Cardenas, AL Sykes, FPN Lopes, G Machado - Veterinary Research, 2022 - Springer
Infectious diseases in livestock are well-known to infect multiple hosts and persist through a
combination of within-and between-host transmission pathways. Uncertainty remains about …

Preventing the cross‐border spread of zoonotic diseases: Multisectoral community engagement to characterize animal mobility—Uganda, 2020

AM Medley, J Gasanani, CA Nyolimati… - Zoonoses and public …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In Uganda, the borders are highly porous to animal movement, which may contribute to
zoonotic disease spread. We piloted an animal adaptation of an existing human‐focused …