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Creating a Platform for Professionals in Ethiopia (C2P – Ethiopia): Strengthening and Accelerating Institutional Linkages Among Ethiopian Livestock Research, Learning, Development, and Business Institutions

by Livestock Lab
December 16, 2024

The Local Capacity Development (LCD) project in Ethiopia “Creating a Platform for Professionals in Ethiopia (C2P - Ethiopia): Strengthening and Accelerating Institutional Linkages Among Ethiopian Livestock Research, Learning, Development, ... READ MORE

Category: Livestock, Professional Development,

Building Human Capacity for Livestock Disease Surveillance

by Livestock Lab
December 21, 2022

Collaboration at the university level has been a key to the success of the Young Stock Mortality (YSM) project in Ethiopia (funded by USAID through the University of Florida). Researchers from the University of California, Davis, Ethiopia’s ... READ MORE

Category: Livestock, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Disease, Ethiopia, International Development, Livestock, Student, Veterinarian

Distance Learning Empowers Women in Rural Nepal to Treat Livestock as a Business

by Livestock Lab
December 19, 2022

Ms. Kusumaya K.C. is part of a vital labor force in Nepal that brings animal health services to remote areas of the country. Before getting to work, however, she had to overcome obstacles to education that often limit rural women from realizing ... READ MORE

Category: Livestock, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Disease, Distance Education, Goat, International Development, Nepal

Zoom-tastic Innovation Platforms Prove Popular and Efficient

by Livestock Lab
December 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many in-person events into virtual formats, including the five 2021 Innovation Platform (IP) meetings for our five current target countries. Would these events be successful, given the potential for technical challenges, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Communicating, Innovation Platform, International Development, Meeting, Virtual, Zoom

First multi-stakeholder Swine Day in Cambodia educates about disease, opportunity

by Livestock Lab
February 11, 2020

In April 2019, the Cambodian government confirmed the presence of African Swine Fever, which is extremely fatal to pigs and has spread into nine east Asian countries since 2018. The disease can devastate the holdings of pig farmers, but ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Professional Development
Tags: Cambodia, Disease, Food Safety, Innovation, International Development, Livestock, Policy, Pork

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