Livestock programmes (e.g. veterinary services, research, census) often omit these more mobile and/or remote communities.
It is important that the EMPRES-Livestock programme promotes the need for disease surveillance, including systems for communication of information from the field to national disease control authorities.
7. The EMPRES-Livestock Programme responds to the threat to developing countries of infectious livestock diseases, especially those that are of significant economic, trade and/or food security importance.
Among the projects and programmes are the Kenya Agricultural Productivity Project (KAPP), the National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP), the Agriculture Sector Programme Support (ASPS) and the National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Programme NAAIAPP).
They cannot afford to become involved in a livestock replacement programme, though absence of oxen seems to be a major reason why land remains uncultivated.
An automatic livestock tracking programme can be a solution to trace livestock welfare problems (Huhtala et al. 2007).
ILCA commissioned a large livestock production programme in 1978, and KGR has been unusually protected by an international presence.
A pro-poor livestock development programme should focus on rejuvenating these resources through enabling policy measures and appropriate technology interventions which may increase the productivity of these lands, thereby increasing the livestock productivity dependant on them.
According to Chitika (2008) the difference between his figures and those presented by Imani Development Consultants could be attributed to recent technical and financial support from organizations like Land O'Lakes and the Small Scale Livestock Promotion Programme (SSLPP) in selected milk bulking groups, who as a condition of this support prohibited farmers from supplying the informal market.
8. Dairy cooperatives in Afghanistan, with the support of the Rural Microfinance and Livestock Support Programme of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), are helping unite farmers' groups and providing training in farm management and feed supply.
London, UK, DFID, Livestock Production Programme, Animal Health Programme/Natural Resources Systems Programme.
