Livestock and healthy lives
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ILRI@40 Addis: Livestock and healthy lives
Reported by Tezira Lore
DAY ONE: 6 November 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel
Featured talk by Lorne Babiuk
Slideshare presentation: Healthy animals equals healthy, productive people
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Roundtable discussion: Livestock and healthy lives
Moderator: John McDermott, director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Panellists
- Walter Masiga, sub-regional representative for eastern Africa, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
- Juliana Rwelamira, managing director, Sasakawa Africa Association
- Vish Nene, director, Livestock Vaccines Initiative, ILRI
Watch the livestream of the roundtable discussion on livestock and healthy lives
DAY TWO: 7 November 2014 at the ILRI Addis campus
Round-up of discussions on livestock and healthy lives from Day One: Plenary presentation by John McDermott
Livestock – healthy lives: Opportunities, challenges and delivery/impact issues
< Opportunities | < Challenges | < Delivery / impact issues |
< Early nutrition ASF for young children and poor Mini and micro-livestock |
< Quantity / quality and price of ASF for poor | < Production – feed/breeds Value chain institutions Gender – nutrition |
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< Livestock potential for incomes and assets | < Affordable nutrition; human health crises | < Women’s empowerment “Incentives / insurance” |
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< Understand and manage infectious disease dynamics | < Managing intensification: waste; population density Antimicrobial resistance |
< Knowledge and practice Strengthen institutions Appropriate technologies |
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< Manage food safety in informal markets for the poor | < Poor – unorganized More complex value chains |
< Capacity of market agents Strengthen institutions Appropriate policy / regulations |
Livestock – healthy lives: Evidence and narrative (contextual issues)
- Complexity
Break down issues / systems and identify key drivers or tipping points Targeting populations and manage hot spots
- Livestock goods and bads
Trade-offs: enhance benefits / mitigate risks Evidence that counts / change the narrative
- Empower and build capacity
Women’s empowerment (roles of men and women) / time / health Build entrepreneurial capacity of farmers / market agents and institutions
Parallel session: Livestock and healthy lives in 2054 – identifying the key priority areas for research
Scene-setting presentations
- [http:www.slideshare.net/ILRI/healthylives-nguyen| One Health and Ecohealth: A framework for agriculture and health research and intervention]: //Presented by Hung Nguyen-Viet
- Livestock for healthy lives: Presented by Delia Grace
- Trends in global health and food safety: Presented by Barbara Szonyi
Scene-setting poster
- Livestock and healthy lives: Presented by Barbara Szonyi
Summary of discussions The group identified the following three key priority areas for research on livestock and health in the next 40 years:
- emerging infectious diseases;
- vaccines and diagnostics; and
- antimicrobial residues and resistance.
Research on emerging infectious diseases needs to focus on increased understanding of the drivers of disease, for example, agricultural intensification, climate change, new farming systems, irrigation and increased mobility of animals and people. Research activities could include mapping, modelling and analysis of vectors; vector control through the use of ‘green’ insecticides; biological control of vectors and adoption of the Ecohealth approach to disease prevention and control.
Research on vaccines should be aimed at developing safe, single-dose, affordable ‘combination’ vaccines that are easy to deliver and target multiple pathogens. Rapid diagnostics that can be used along the food chain and are linked into large databases for surveillance can provide early warning systems for quick detection and reporting of potential health hazards and timely intervention.
Research on antibiotic residues and resistance needs to ensure prudent use of antimicrobials for treatment of farm animals to avoid residues in animal-source food products. The transfer of antibiotic resistance from animals to milk, meat and eggs was also identified as an important research area.
Reporting back to plenary
- Livestock for healthy lives: Presented by Hung Nguyen-Viet
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