The essential role of poultry farming in the equilibrium of farming families

After a particularly complicated and violent period in its history under the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia can boast of having halved its poverty rate between 2014 and 2022. Even if extreme poverty is still far from being eradicated today, this progress proves that it is not inevitable. In the villages, after rice, poultry farming is […]

Animal health in southern Madagascar

High-performance, resilient breeding

Sustainable livestock farming in the southern mountains

In the mountainous areas of southern Ethiopia, the vast majority of farms are small family holdings of less than one hectare. On their plots, families combine livestock with crops to maintain soil fertility, consume milk and sell dairy products. AVSF supports these families in optimizing milk production, by working on : The benefits are threefold: […]

Elephants and men live together

Background and interests In Zambia, elephants and farming communities share a common territory. The cohabitation of these two species is a successful example of preserving wildlife and protecting the interests of local populations. A pilot project for human-elephant cohabitation has been successfully implemented in five villages bordering Kafue National Park, involving 356 farming families and […]

Community and integrated zoonosis surveillance

Senegal: Setting up and running a network of veterinary auxiliaries. Cambodia: Community interventions to reduce and prevent the risk of zoonotic emergence. Madagascar: Development and/or reinforcement of surveillance capacities for priority zoonotic diseases, in line with local, regional and national needs and contexts.

Strengthening the socio-economic and environmental resilience of local communities

In southern Iraq, the wetlands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are a UNESCO biodiversity heritage site. Its population, the Marsh Arabs or Maadan, suffered destruction and persecution under the regime of Saddam Hussein, who completely drained the marshes in the 1980s and 1990s. For these people, who have lived for millennia […]

Controlling African swine fever in Cambodia and Laos

Fighting African swine fever

Biosecurity on farms against African swine fever

Smallholder livestock farming in the Global North and South !

Animal health and veterinary public health : an important global issue