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Better Lives for Livestock Keepers: Improved Livestock Production & Health

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A collection of summaries describing key outputs from projects run by DFID's recently completed 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Audience: Livestock Farmers
Livestock Diseases
Making Better Use of Fodder Crops
Better Use of Draught Animals
Improved Marketing and Innovation
Improved Information and Tools
   
Livestock Diseases:
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Research Outputs
Cluster

Combating sleeping sickness in cattle and people - Diagnostics for identification and differentiation of African trypanosomes

AHP01
Waking up to better ways of tackling sleeping sickness - Control of zoonotic sleeping sickness by treatment of domestic livestock

AHP02
Waking up to better ways of tackling sleeping sickness - Influencing policy for zoontic disease control through generation and dissemination of research findings: Zoonotic sleeping sickness - a case study
AHP10
Better planning for tsetse control - Integrated tsetse control Tsetse muse, an interactive computer program designed to help planners develop cost-effective strategies for controlling tsetse.
AHP15
A cheaper tsetse control method - Restricted insecticide application for tsetse control
LPP14
Controlling the threat of rabies - Design of rabies control programmes for domestic dogs
AHP03
Beating brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis - Identification of risk factors for TB/Brucellosis and dissemination of messages to at risk populations
AHP04
An easy-to-use computer program to help plan farmer-friendly tsetse control - Integrated tsetse control Tsetse plan, an interactive computer program that provides expert assistance to help NGOs and farmers groups plan tsetse control campaigns
AHP05
New strategies to control worms in goat keepers herds - Control of worms in goats in southern Africa Development and dissemination of strategies for controlling nematodes in goats
AHP06
Easy-to-use software provides the poor with access to information - El Promotor and Daktari wa Mifugo: Demand-led interactive learning software for poor livestock keepers in Bolivia and Kenya
LPP30
There for the picking - cheap feed options and worm treatments - The role of tanniniferous tree products for improved livestock productivity in semi-arid regions
LPP16
Easy diagnosis of livestock diseases - Decision support for diagnosis Effective decision supoprt tools for diagnosis of endemic diseases in SSA
AHP07
A new animal health and livestock training network for sub-Saharan Africa - Transforming existing animal health and production research outputs into interactive continuing professional development (CPD) modules to support in practice training of animal healthcare professionals
AHP08
A new animal health and livestock training network for sub-Saharan Africa - Delivery of research findings African Universities Veterinary e-learning Consortium (AUVEC) - a network for developing and delivering appropriate learning opportunities to animal health professionals
AHP11
A new animal health and livestock training network for sub-Saharan Africa - Delivery of research findings African Universities Veterinary e-learning Consortium (AUVEC). Creation of a common e-learning framework to develop, deliver and share learning resources
AHP12
Pro-poor vaccine-based control of East Coast fever - Infect and treat method (ITM) for ECF control A pro-poor vaccine against ECF
AHP14

Making Better Use of Fodder Crops:
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Research Outputs
Cluster
Oiling the wheels of groundnut production - Promotion of crop residues for fodder
CPP15
Trees for fodder for the poor - Pro poor strategies for agroforestry development based on new partnerships, novel uses for tree fodder and "optimised" tree planting pattern
FRP21
More shrubs mean more milk in East Africa - Scaling up the promotion of fodder shrubs in east Africa
FRP43
Snack bags for cows boost smallholder dairy farms milk production - Conserved forage in the form of bagged silage maintains livestock productivity through the dry season in SSA
LPP03
Handy bales save livestock keepers money - Manual boxbaling of maize stover and other dry forages to facilitate transport, storage and feed budgeting
LPP05
Fussy eaters - improving the benefits of dry-season feed - Self selection and other methods to improve quality of fibrous crop residues (cereal stover and straw) as stall-feed for ruminants
LPP06
Double the benefits - using legumes to boost both milk and rice production - Leguminous forages and feed blocks for smallholder mixed farms and landless dairy producers in Bangladesh
LPP08
New strategies to control worms in goat keepers herds - Control of worms in goats in southern Africa Development and dissemination of strategies for controlling nematodes in goats
AHP06
There for the picking - cheap feed options and worm treatments - The role of tanniniferous tree products for improved livestock productivity in semi-arid regions
LPP16
Trees for fodder and fuel in Nepal - Agroforestry on rice bunds, farm boundaries and marginal bunds in low altitude areas of Nepal
PSP37
Too many mouths to feed - a new tool to allocate feed efficiently - OXFEED: Practical decision support tool to improve the feed management of ruminant work animals
LPP10

Better Use of Draught Animals:
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Research Outputs
Cluster
More work for oxen, less work for women and children - Reducing drudgery and improving returns to annual crop production in Uganda through the promotion of draught animal technologies
CPP65
Shouldering the burdens of the poor - Draught Animal Power Toolbox
LPP09
The donkey radio shows - helping producers care for draught animals - The use of radio programmes to promote donkey welfare
LPP11
Improved livestock practices for highland communities - Improved management and use of draught animals in the Andean hill farming systems in Bolivia (Prometa-CIFEMA)
LPP12

Improved Marketing and Innovation:
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Research Outputs
Cluster
From plough to plate, collaboration delivers results - Exploring market opportunities through a research, industry and user coalition: Sorghum-poultry feed
CPH05
Farmer marketing organisations help reduce poverty - Supporting farmer organisations for poverty reducing market access
CPH08
Partnership-based innovation helps break bad habits - Principle for enabling partnership-based innovation
CPH12
Access to knowledge can make change a reality - Policy advice and planning frameworks to help strengthen pro-poor institutional learning and change
CPH13
New tests keep poisons out of food - and off the table - The development of technologies for the control of mycotoxins in human and livestock feed
CPH17
More marketing choices mean better livelihoods for poor paddy growers - Improved paddy markets for small-scale producers in Bangladesh: An analytical framework
CPH19
New information takes farmers - Together to Market - Market information tools: Combining radio and training to facilitate successful farmer group marketing
CPH26
Simple transport solutions cut drudgery and improve livelihoods - Building partnerships for sustainable rural transport development
CPH27
From mangos to markets - Market information tools
CPH37
Information maps - a path to effective solutions - Knowledge management
CPH45
A checklist for farmer-friendly information - Linking demand for agricultural information with its supply
CPP40
Capturing farmers demands and involving them in research - Methods for linking the supply of technology with the demand from smallholder farmers
CPP58

Improved Information and Tools:
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Research Outputs
Cluster
Practical hints for user-friendly field guides - User-friendly field botany: Activating new ways for the flora to reduce poverty
FRP45
Making stakeholders aware of advances in smallholder dairy farming - Smallholder dairying toolbox
LPP01
Talking pictures - new tools to boost smallholders milk production - Optimising knowledge and information transfer - Novel approaches for stimulating innovation as a poverty reduction entry-point
LPP02
Too many mouths to feed - a new tool to allocate feed efficiently - OXFEED: Practical decision support tool to improve the feed management of ruminant work animals
LPP10
Improving soil quality and fighting erosion in the Andes - Improved soil and water conservation practices in hillside production systems in the Andean valleys of Bolivia
LPP15
Out with the old and in with the new - better extension - Improving information and communication for smallholder farmers
LPP18
Community breeding to improve poor farmers flocks - Community based goat productivity improved under smallholder production systems using the FARM Africa model
LPP19
Making it easier to keep small animals - Alternative strategies for small livestock keepers in forest margins
LPP20
New decision tools to target restocking efforts - Restocking pastoralists - A manual of best practice and decision support tools
LPP22
More informed decisions for livestock keepers in dry areas - Environmental variability and productivity of semi-arid grazing systems
LPP23
A new kind of extension worker- the Livestock Guru
LPP25
Ensuring that future research is appropriate - Networking as a tool to disseminate information and training manuals
LPP26
Working more closely with producers - a new guide - Participatory livestock research
LPP27
Helping people access the information they need - Methodologies for development of appropriate extension messages and communication pathways
LPP28
Easy-to-use software provides the poor with access to information - El Promotor and Daktari wa Mifugo: Demand-led interactive learning software for poor livestock keepers in Bolivia and Kenya
LPP30