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Resources Tagged: Newcastle Disease

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  1. Village Chickens, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: The Benefits of Newcastle Disease Control in Southern Africa

    2013-01-20 Village chickens can be found in all developing countries and play a vital role in many poor rural households. They provide scarce animal protein in the form of meat and eggs and can be sold or bartered to meet essential family needs such as medicine, clothes and school fees. Village poultry are...
    Chickens Village chickens Newcastle Disease Food Security

  2. Kacheri Woman Reaps Benefits From TOGETHER Program Poultry Vaccinations

    2015-03-02 Robert Okumu-Obonya, ECHO Technical Advisor for the TOGETHER Program, an initiative of ECHO, Church World Service, and MAP International, with funding support from St. Mary’s United Methodist Church Foundation, reports on progress being made through a poultry vaccination program being implemented...
    Newcastle Disease Vaccination Chickens Together Project East Africa

  3. Mitigation of Newcastle Disease for reducing food insecurity

    Session:This presentation will be co-presented through a combination of video and discussion. Village chickens play a vital role in the lives of rural poor, providing meat, eggs, and income from sales which meet family needs. They are generally owned by women and children and provide food...
    Newcastle Disease East Africa

  4. Vaccine for Newcastle Disease in Village Poultry Transforms the Lives of African Farmers - Video

    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research has supported the development of the vaccine against New Castle Disease for over 25 years in SE Asia and some African countries. This video presents the success stories of village poultry farmers who, thanks to vaccine program supported by...
    Poultry Health Poultry Vaccination Poultry Farms Newcastle Disease Animal Vaccination East Africa

  5. African Women Adopt Vaccine Fight Against Poverty

    This is an article on the webpage ofCommunity of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development (CoP-PPLD), an on-line sharing network for practitioners, managers, researchers and other actors involved in pro-poor livestock development.The article presents the results of a successful ACIAR program...
    Newcastle Disease Chickens Livestock Development Animal Vaccination East Africa

  6. Backyard Poultry Enterprise - Newcastle Disease

    2014-10-20
    Poultry Newcastle Disease East Africa

  7. Newcastle Disease vaccination in local chicken as a tool for poverty alleviation

    2016-04-13 What is Newcastle disease? Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious, severe viral disease found worldwide that affects birds including domestic poultry. ND is endemic in all parts of Nigeria and is more common during the harmattan season (October –March) with the virus remaining dormant most...
    Chickens Newcastle Disease Animal Vaccination Vaccination West Africa

  8. Engaging Non-Governmental Organizations in Newcastle Disease Control

    2013-01-20 Church-based missions and other small non-government organizations can be responsive to the interests of communities, and can promote a sustainable model of rural poultry vaccination— sometimes more effectively than the district or local government alone. What does a typical model of a...
    Newcastle Disease Poultry Vaccination Food Security Agricultural Devel...

  9. Newcastle Disease Control

    2015-02-03
    Newcastle Disease East Africa

  10. Lessons Learned in Promoting Rural Poultry Systems & Newcastle Disease Control

    2013-02-20
    Poultry Newcastle Disease East Africa