The One Planet Women project aims to support women scientists from francophone West Africa working at the intersection of climate change and agriculture through a career development model that combines mentoring, scientific ...

Child malnutrition is one of the most used indicators for tracking progress towards attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) and the impacts of development interventions. Unfortunately, the current methods for ...

Where does digital technology fit in with livestock farming? Can flying animal vaccines in by drone to remote regions help address gender inequality? Find out on this special episode of The Boma! In this podcast, we hear ...

In Uganda, the majority of rural households are engaged in livestock rearing. Livestock is reared by both men and women, and in some pastoral communities, sick animals are left in the care of women while men take healthy ...

The study’s broad purpose was to understand the reasons why animal health workers overlook women in service delivery. In order to understand this, the study looked at the different identities and roles of women, not just ...

Women small-scale farmers depend heavily on small livestock for their income. As they are also responsible for caring for diseased animals, they are disproportionately affected (by these livestock diseases). SheVax+ is ...

In Ghana, 3 million farmers depend on livestock farming for food and income. However, Newcastle disease, peste des petits ruminants and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, result in high mortality rates in goats and poultry, ...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), Rift Valley fever and Newcastle disease, are highly contagious livestock diseases. Vaccinations are available to protect livestock, but women farmers rarely benefit. Barriers include a ...

In Ghana, backyard poultry and goat production systems are the most predominant and play a key role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers especially women, who are usually in charge of these species in the household. ...