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Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Todd Andrew Crane, Art R. P. J. Dewulf   +3 more
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Expanding women's opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

, 2004
Throughout the world, deeply entrenched barriers exclude women from meaningful participation in socio-economic and political activities. This is not merely an issue of fairness and equality.
Ssewamala, Fred
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Differential rumen and hindgut microbiome and metabolome in Holstein female calves with divergent feed efficiency

Microbiome
Background Significant environmental problems have challenged animal agriculture, improving feed efficiency in animals has become a vital research direction for sustainable agriculture.
Tianyu Chen, Jianxin Xiao, Shangru Li, Rong Peng, Yiming Xu, Yimin Zhuang, Xinjie Zhao, Mo Sha, Jingjun Wang, Jiaying Ma, Wei Wang, Jian Gao, Mei Ma, Shengli Li, Zhijun Cao, Shuai Liu   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Abattoir antemortem inspection protocol: Observation of unloading improves detection of transport welfare compromises in livestock

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Ensuring livestock welfare throughout the production chain, including transport, is an ethical and regulatory imperative. However, protocols to assess transport‐related welfare during routine abattoir inspections are not standardised, including antemortem (AM) inspection by an official veterinarian at UK abattoirs.
Sayaka Mochizuki, Declan Arden, Kurt Arden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Live Animal Ultrasound Information as a Decision Tool in Replacement Beef Heifer Programs [PDF]

Real-time ultrasound information taken on beef heifers prior to backgrounding is used to develop a logit model to aid heifer retention decisions. The value of ultrasound data is calculated as the difference in certainty equivalents between a decision ...
Vann, Rhonda C., Willard, Scott T., Anderson, John D., Dos Santos, Alecsandro   +3 more
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Effects of preweaning calf daily gain and feed intake on first-lactation performance: A meta-analysis

Journal of Dairy Science
: This study aimed to investigate the effects of daily weight gain and feed intake of calves on first-lactation milk yield and composition using a meta-analysis. A total of 57 treatments from 18 studies were included in the study.
Wen Jiang, Jingjun Wang, Shangru Li, Shuai Liu, Yimin Zhuang, Shengli Li, Wei Wang, Yajing Wang, Hongjian Yang, Wei Shao, Zhijun Cao   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of the effects of rectal examination on heart rate and eye temperature in cattle of different parity

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Rectal examination is a routine procedure in bovine reproductive management, but its physiological impact may vary depending on the cow's age and parity. Stress responses during such procedures can negatively affect animal welfare and compliance, especially in inexperienced animals.
Atakan Cortu, Orsan Gungor
wiley   +1 more source

Heifer International: growing a learning organisation

, 2002
Heifer International (HI) has been applying participatory approaches to rural development for nearly 60 years. Organisationally, HI focuses on building the capacity of its country programmes and NGO partners to work independently toward a unifying ...
Protti, Mark, Ogborn, Tim, Schwartz, Marvin, Dierolf, Thomas, Kern, Rienzzie   +4 more
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How neonatal diet affects the long-term development of rumination behavior, rumen fermentation and feed digestion in dairy calves fed a high milk level?

Animal Nutrition
This study was to investigate growth performance, rumination development, rumen fermentation and feed digestion in young calves provided high volumes (about 20% of calf birth weight) of milk with or without forage inclusion and how these parameters ...
Jianxin Xiao, Tianyu Chen, Rong Peng, Gibson M. Alugongo, Hui Yang, Shuai Liu, Yulin Ma, Jingjun Wang, Shengli Li, Zhijun Cao   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal and seasonal trends of bovine tuberculosis in the Irish cattle population (2008–2024)

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has substantial impacts on the Irish cattle industry. Between 2016 and 2024, its burden increased in Irish cattle. As an initial step towards understanding drivers of this increase, we explore long‐term trends in measures of bTB burden and cattle demographics in Ireland. Methods Using data from 2008 to 2024,
Jamie M. Madden, Eamonn Gormley, Philip Breslin, Damien Barrett, Jonas Brock, Jamie A. Tratalos, John Griffin, Mike Horan, Miriam Casey‐Bryars   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source