VacciCost is a tool designed to help decision-makers in the estimation of the resources required to implement mass livestock vaccination campaigns against regulated diseases.
Thukten is a Livestock Production Officer at the District Livestock Office, Haa, and implements livestock development activities in the district.
Genomic information has been implemented in livestock breeding schemes with ad hoc breeding plans, suggesting that the potential benefits of genomic information are not being fully exploited.
To counter this, in 2010, the MLFD implemented a livestock development program, which aims to increase GDP contribution to 7percentt by 2016.
In Azerbaijan where a majority of cases appear to be male dominated as a result of occupational exposures implementing targeted livestock vaccination strategies would seem to be the most prudent choice for control.
It has, however, not been extensively implemented in livestock due mainly to the difficulty and cost of routine collection of phenotypic and pedigree data from crossbreds in the field [ 1].
An active laboratory-based surveillance system for RVF was implemented for livestock in Mayotte in March 2008, which has led to several recent RVF cases being detected in cattle (Bureau of Veterinary Services, Mayotte, unpub. data).
In Brazil, for example, a two-year-old, $250 million program has financed more than 2,000 farming projects to help recover degraded pastures, improve the processing of livestock waste, implement no-till agriculture to increase the life of the soil, plant commercial forests and employ other practices that have low emissions and respond to the changing climate.
As many animals have been severely weakened by lack of food and water, FAO will also implement a cash-for-livestock exchange that will reimburse farmers for bringing unproductive livestock to slaughter and support community feed production.
Small-scale keepers are less likely to engage with production organisations and may therefore be less aware of legislation, rules and biosecurity practices which are implemented in the livestock sector.
