The study was carried out to document the production system of indigenous Woyto-Guji goats and major limitations goat reared in two districts (Nyangatom Maale) South Omo, Ethiopia. Stepwise purposive followed by a random sampling method used select respondents. Based on result, households Nyangatom district preferred rear cattle, sheep less number poultry when compared those residing Maale dist...

Peste des petits ruminants virus, which causes a severe disease in sheep and goats, has only recently been officially declared to be present in Tanzania. An epidemiological study was carried out between September 2008 and October 2010 to investigate the incursion, persistence and spread of the virus in Tanzania. The investigation involved serosurveillance, outbreak investigation and computation...

Half of Africa's almost 450 million inhabitants have no access to health services, while two-thirds lack safe drinking water, according to a 1991 report by the World Bank. Most Africans are also seriously affected by poverty, civil war, indoor and outdoor pollutants, diarrhea-causing microbes, tropical diseases such as malaria, rapid population growth, inadequate sanitation and sewage treatmen...

A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess hygienic production and postharvest handling practices of raw camel milk in Degahbour district. The survey studies were based on a total 120 (2 systems * 2 rural kebele 30 households) producers, which selected from Degahbur district using stratified sampling technique. Data the producers collected questionnaire field observation. results showed ...

There is currently a wave of enthusiasm for “building resilience” in the international humanitarian and development sectors. This has coincided with a number of attempts to both define what resilience is and devise ways of measuring it. However, rather than comprehensively reviewing these attempts, the paper presents Oxfam GB’s own approach for both understanding and measuring resilience. It be...