DFID Contact Number: ZC0067 Project title: DO DIETARY TANNINS (POLYPHENOLICS) AFFECT THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF RUMINANTS TO PARASITIC INFECTION? RNRRS Programme: Livestock production science Production System: Semi-arid production systems and high potential systems

Livestock Farming Systems and Cattle Production Orientation in Eastern High Plains of Algeria, Cattle Farming System in Algerian Semi-Arid Region

This study was an attempt to devise productive orientations of cattle herds in eastern high plains of Algeria. In this regard, 165 farms randomly identified were investigated. The selection of breeders was based to existence of cattle on the farm, and the farmer proposed to investigation must have at least two cows. The approach taken was to identify all systems adopted by farmers in a region t...

Goat keepers cluster reports: project R7424 CAN FEEDING LOCALLY AVAILABLE PLANT MATERIAL RICH IN TANNINS REDUCE PARASITIC BURDEN IN RUMINANTS AND HENCE IMPROVE THEIR PRODUCTIVITY?

Gastrointestinal parasitic infections are a major constraint to small ruminant productivity in the tropics and subtropics, including Tanzania. This significantly reduces the economy and food supply to small farmers and their families. Earlier studies at the University of Nottingham (see for example Butter et al., 2000) have shown that feeding the extracted tannin from Quebracho (used in the lea...

Helping Smallstock Keepers Enhance Their Livelihoods: Improving Management of Smallholder Owned Sheep and Goats by Utilising Local Resources

Gastrointestinal parasitic infections are a major constraint to small ruminant productivity in the tropics and subtropics, including Tanzania. This significantly reduces the economy and food supply to small farmers and their families. Earlier studies at the University of Nottingham (see for example Butter et al., 2000) have shown that feeding the extracted tannin from Quebracho (used in the lea...

Rnrrs Livestock Production Programme R6140 Influence of Nutrition on the Growth and Reproductive Performance of Trypanosome-infected Small Ruminants

Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Know its Advantages, Understand its Challenges, Act for its Sustainability

On the global scale, extensive pastoral production accounts for 10% of total meat production (or a billion head of camels, cattle and small animals on all continents)1 and supports some 200 million pastoral households. Yet, despite the considerable benefits conferred by pastoral production systems, they are often denigrated as being archaic. [R1] On the African continent, despite these subjecti...