Concerted effort by national veterinary services in both industrialised and developing countries, aided by international organisations, has brought the once dreaded rinderpest livestock disease to the point of extinction. In its severest form, rinderpest is capable of killing up to 95 per cent of the animals it infects. However, the development of new vaccine technologies, community-based healt...

KATHLEEN MCAFEE ABSTRACT Programmes to address global warming and promote green development, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and [forest] Degradation financed by carbon-offset trading, are framed by a world-as-market paradigm that subsumes social goals within a project of globalized eco-economic management. Because market-based strategies reinfor...

Effective control of animal diseases is a critical element of any strategy that aims at supporting and enhancing livestock dependent livelihoods of rural poor. Over the years, the literature on delivery of livestock services has increasingly emphasized that the governments in developing countries have a public responsibility in ensuring that the incidence of animal diseases, specially those dis...

This article describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and worsened existing social economic conditions of rural people in South Africa, their livelihoods have been affected rights violated as a result. The considered discussed include those contained African Bill Rights with particular focus on socio-economic which, by very nature, important dimensions. implications these dimensions unde...