Nestlé and Global Good have announced the Clinton Global Initiative Commitments to Action, as part of a two-year partnership to improve the productivity of smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa
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KEVEVAPI: Animal Protection and Promotion Strategies for the Future
For the first time in its long history, KEVEVAPI is now guided by a Strategic Plan (SP) 2010- 2015 that articulates the institute’s shared vision, mission, core functions and strategic objectives to be achieved by 2015
Livestock quarantine facility to be established in Mombasa County
Mombasa County has stated that it will set up a US$23.5mn modern quarantine facility to check livestock diseases
Dairy farm to be set up in Nigeria
A full-scale industrial dairy farm will be built in Nigeria after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between NigerPars Nigeria Limited, the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology (IROST) and the Holstein Association of Iran
ILRI conference discusses accessing finance for livestock and dairy farming
A guarantee fund needs to be set up to allow financial service providers to hedge their risks in the multi-stakeholder livestock value chains, according to speakers at a recent conference in Nairobi on livestock and dairy farming in Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACT) countries