Tanzania is one of the countries with the largest number of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa, comprising approximately 33.8 million cattle (98% of which are indigenous breeds), 24.5 million goats, 8.5 million sheep, 3.2 million pigs, and 87.7 million chickens [24]. Livestock keeping is one of ...
Char areas are one of the important geographical structures of Assam covering about state’s 5% of total land with about 10% of total population. Mishings are the second largest tribe of Assam inhabitant mostly in Char areas of Upper Assam. Livestock plays an important role in the Mishing co...
For example, in 1973, China's per capita consumption of milk was 2 kg/year and reached 32 kg/year in 2013. Africa contributed little to the Livestock Revolution between 1973 and 2013. Although the proportion of developing countries’ population living in Africa increased from 14% to 19%, ...
The findings of the economic cost of this study in the slaughter abattoirs, need to be extrapolated to the livestock population of each district and region based on slaughterable age to determine the real economic cost of CE in the district or region. These costs are quite high especially if...
We applied a novel Outbreak Costing Tool (OCT), developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to estimate the costs of investigating and responding to an anthrax outbreak in Tanzania. We also evaluated the OCT's overall utility in its application to a multisectoral outb...
Regular analysis of diagnostic and surveillance data from livestock and wildlife are essential for efficient management of anthrax outbreaks in animals and protecting human population [16]. However, despite the frequent occurrence of anthrax outbreaks in Tanzania, there is no comprehensive analysis of dat...
This latter share, however, is rising quickly because of rapid increases in livestock production resulting from population growth, urbanization, changes in lifestyles and dietary habits and increasing disposable incomes. Therefore the objective of this review paper was to investigate the use of ...
responds to elevation and distance from the Indian Ocean (OR Tambo District Municipality2020). OR Tambo is estimated to be the most densely populated district in the province (123 people per square kilometre) with an estimated population of 1.51 million people (OR Tambo District Municipality2020)....
Two broad approaches to whole farm modeling and trade-off analysis can be distinguished: detailed modeling of few farming systems, types or classes that are considered representative, or quick calculations across a population of households. In this study, we decided for ‘middle ground’, aiming to...
The situation is expected to worsen in the future due to the expected population growth, with countries such as Nigeria and Uganda expected to double their population by 2050 [1]. Malnutrition in children, particularly in children under 5 years of age, can have lasting effects on their ...