Livestock Disease and African Food Security
Title: Livestock Disease and African Food Security
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1292 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Livestock Disease and African Food Security
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1292 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Livestock Disease and African Food Security
A serious problem in Africa today is the emergence of rampant, deadly strains of disease that are affecting livestock and ravaging populations of pigs and cattle in many African nations, putting food security at risk in many populations of various nations. With already major food scarcity issues among many emerging African nations, disease will only further pressure an already dire situation for food security in Africa. Livestock play important …showed first 75 words of 1292 total…
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(3) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "Intensive surveillance and vaccination campaign checks rinderpest epidemic in East Africa" 1997. Rome, Italy.
http://www.fao.org/news/1997/970707-e.htm
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http://www.pighealth.com/ Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Background information:
EMPRES, FAO. Livestock Disease Scenarios of Mobile versus Sedentary Pastoral Systems. Date? Rome, Italy.
http://www.undp.org/seed/unso/pub-htm/pastoral-eng-roeder.htm
