Update: animal welfare projects

Dr Rebecca Doyle, JMICAWE Deputy Director highlights the following projects.

MEASURING PIG WELFARE IN UGANDA

The pig sector in Uganda is among the fastest growing livestock sectors and it is characterized by low productivity due to limited resources and veterinary support. As the welfare status of pigs in the system is unknown, a cross-sectional welfare assessment was carried out in four districts in central Uganda (Masaka, Mukono, Mpigi and Wakiso) to identify issues requiring action. These results will form the basis of future intervention programs and act as a benchmark to improve pig welfare and farmer livelihoods.

• https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/114180
• https://www.ilri.org/publications/understanding-mortality-and-morbidity-pigs-ugandan-smallholder-production-systems

 

SILVOPASTORALISM AND ANIMAL WELFARE IN ETHIOPIA

Image credit: Tsega Berhe

This project demonstrates the benefits of agroforestry–livestock systems in Ethiopia for animal welfare, livelihoods and the environment. We have project sites in both the highlands and pastroral production systems of Ethiopia, and are collaborating with World Agroforestry, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse and regional partners. The evidence gathered from the project will be used to scale out these results through a future research project starting in 2022.

• https://www.ilri.org/research/projects/synergies-animal-welfare-and-agroforestry-benefit-farming-systems-ethiopia
• https://www.biovision.ch/en/projects/ethiopia/trees-for-animal-welfare/