The 'Mitigating the Impact of Livestock Diseases' project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), was recently launched by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), to boost household resilience to shocks by protecting their livestock assets
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Scientists from Uganda and Botswana collaborate to develop FMD vaccines
Scientists from the Botswana Vaccine Institute have partnered with Ugandan scientists and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries to combat foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), known to be one of livestock industry's most notorious viral diseases, resulting in economic losses wordwide
Cargill’s extended partnership with ENOUGH offers consumers with innovative, sustainable protein options
Cargill and food tech leader ENOUGH, are expanding their current partnership to further innovate nutritious and sustainable alternative meat and dairy solutions popular among consumers
Prevention and control of livestock diseases made easy with Tianlong Solution
Tianlong Technology provides pioneering disease detection solutions, comprising a variety of instruments and matching reagents that allow for swift and reliable detection of African Swine Fever (ASF), Avian Influenza (AI) and foot and mouth disease, among others
Kenya's Egerton University develops innovative test to tackle antimicrobial resistance in milk
While solutions for testing antimicrobial resistance do exist on the market, the cost of using them remains far beyond the reach of ordinary, small-scale farmers who constitute around 80% of Kenyas milk producers, says Teresia Ndung’u, a doctoral student at Kenya’s Egerton University