1- Socioeconomic improvement for smallholders
1- Socioeconomic improvement for smallholders
1- Socioeconomic improvement for smallholders
LifeStock International works with farmers to decrease disease in their livestock. This improves the microeconomy, which in turn promotes food security and the public health, and, indirectly, wildlife and ecosystem health.
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2- Government engagement
1- Socioeconomic improvement for smallholders
1- Socioeconomic improvement for smallholders
We partner with national government agencies and animal health organizations to enhance the control of transboundary animal diseases, thus enabling increased animal production and improvements to the national economy.
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3- Education of veterinary cadre
LifeStock International has proven training to prepare veterinarians from the developed world to provide the most useful services when working overseas. LifeStock partners with foreign colleagues to enhance their own systems.
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For all of our projects, our goal is to help smallholders
Who Are Smallholders?
* They are small-scale farmers who manage small areas, using mainly family labor for production, and using part of the produce for family consumption.
* 80% of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is worked by smallholders.
* It is estimated that there are 1.5-2B smallholders globally (18-25% of the world's population!) who survive by working the land and raising a few animals.
* Women make up 43% of the labor force of smallholders.
* Smallholders provide 80% of the food supply in their communities.
Minneapolis 2022
(SAVMA) Symposium 2022
LifeStock Directors had a solid presence at the SAVMA Symposium in Minneapolis in March 2022, attended by more than 750 veterinary students, faculty, and animal health exhibitors. Dr. Corrie Brown presented a review of how Global Animal Health works, and how control of diseases that disrupt the economy or public health must be controlled before a private veterinary workforce can expect to become sustainable.
Explaining early-warning systems
At SAVMA, we emphasized that a major effort of LifeStock is to bring farmers into the overall surveillance system, to create early-warning systems to help control the major diseases of concern. Dr. Brian Joseph gave more details on working with smallholders in various developing countries around the world, and the tremendous satisfaction it can provide. He noted that it requires adequate preparation in areas not usually taught in standard veterinary curricula.
The LifeStock exhibit booth at SAVMA had a steady traffic of students interested in working with us.