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 humans living together
Context In the heart of Zambia, Kafue National Park is the scene of increasingly frequent and severe conflicts between local populations and elephants. As the population grows, farmland is expanding into elephant habitat. In their search for food elephants sometimes trample and consume the crops of farming families. Among the crops most prized by the […]
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
Monitoring pasture condition using a spacial method
Smallholder livestock farming in the Global North and South !
Animal health and veterinary public health : an important global issue
