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Highlights: Integrating agriculture-forestry-livestock (AFL) systems for SDGs lacks clarity in developing countries. The study explores AFL synergies, trade-offs in Bangladesh for SDGs and suggests solutions. AFL...

Highlights Animal source foods are necessary and missing in the diets of nearly 800 million individuals. ASF are the best source of high-quality nutrient-rich food...

Nigeria’s federal and state governments are struggling to implement a National Livestock Transformation Plan that seeks to curb the movement of cattle across the country and reduce deadly herder-farmer...

Livestock is a crucial source of food, employment, and income for much of East Africa’s rural population, as well as generating investment from the private sector and other actors. The subsector contributes...

The way we produce food has accelerated climate change, but can sustainable production methods help to reverse it?

The growing demand for a more holistic “food systems approach” to policy making is based on the realisation that there are potential synergies and trade-offs between food security and...

Translate scientific evidence into sustainable changes for livestock-keeping communities in low- and middle-income countries – that is the goal the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has set itself...

In the next 30-40 years the demand for animal source foods will grow rapidly in the African continent due to growth in human population, increasing consumer purchasing power...

Sustainable intensification of livestock systems is essential to feed the rapidly growing world population. One of the key principles of sustainable intensification is "resilience to future shocks and stresses of disease...

The overall objective of SPEAR is to improve the livelihoods of small-scale livestock and poultry farmers by improving the productivity and quality of local livestock and poultry value chains (LPVCs) in Senegal, Ghana...