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Validation of Assessment Reports on Resilience-Enhancing Technologies and Practices Along the Livestock Value Chain for Karamoja Cluster
Background ICPALD in collaboration with IDDRSI team, financially supported by USAID, conducted a review and pre-Covid pandemic field studies to identify, validate and share innovative resilience-enhancing technologies and practices in: (i) livestock value chains and (ii) fodder and animal feed in cross-border areas of IGAD cluster 1 (Karamoja cluster). The assessment reports identified technologies and […]
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National Validation Workshop for Study on Total Economic Valuation of Uganda’s Pastoralism
Background Pastoralism in Uganda is a diverse livelihood, with the main concentration in livestock accompanied by a degree of mobility. It also involves a combination of other activities such as agriculture, trade, among others. The pastoral areas constitute about 44% of the country’s total land mass i.e. rangelands that comprise what is known as the […]
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Monitoring RVF Threat in the IGAD Region
Preamble Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a viral zoonotic disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause severe symptoms in animals and humans. The disease can result in death and abortion in RVF-infected livestock. This epizootic disease in animals, which spills over to the human population (zoonotic), tends to develop rapidly following abnormally high […]
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Positioning Kenya and IGAD MS to Optimize Livestock Trade Benefits from AfCFTA
IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD), African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) and African Union – Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) held a high-level roundtable virtual meeting on 28th May 2020, regarding optimizing returns from Intra-African Trade in Livestock and Livestock Products, under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The purpose […]
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Effects of COVID-19 Control Measures on Live Animals and Meat Export Trade from IGAD Member States
Introduction The IGAD region is rich in livestock resources and covers over 60% of the live animal and about 10% of the meat annual demand of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. In the region, over 80% of the above supply is sourced from the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities who mainly depend on livestock […]
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IGAD and FAO Join Forces Against Rift Valley Fever
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a viral zoonotic disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause severe symptoms in animals and humans. The disease can result in death and abortion in RVF-infected livestock. This epizootic disease in animals, which spills over to the human population, tends to develop extremely rapidly following abnormally high seasonal […]
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Effects of COVID-19 on Livestock Sector in the IGAD Region
The repercussions of Covid-19 outbreak are being felt more strongly with every passing day, and despite the unprecedented steps and cumulative efforts undertaken by governments, businesses, development partners, UN agencies, NGOs and individuals to stem the tide, the virus continues to rampage unchecked across the globe, causing loss of life and hitting national economies and […]
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IGAD High Level Experts and Committee of Ambassadors Meeting to Endorse the Protocol on Transhumance in the IGAD Region, 27 February 2020
Background: Climate variability has been affecting vast areas of the region irrespective of international borders and restriction on cross-border transhumance as a regional risk management mechanism, conflicts and defective tenure policies have however posed threats to sustainability of pastoral livelihood system. In order to address these challenges and secure the pastoral ecosystem in the region, […]
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Awareness Creation and Roll Out of PLEWS, PET and AFBS Tools to Enhance Early Warning and Informed Decision-Making Training, 24-25 February 2020
The three day meeting, in Naivasha, was officially opened by Stanley Mutua on behalf of the Director of Livestock Production, while welcome remarks were made by Dr. Solomon Munyua, the Director of ICPALD, and Dr. Paul Opio, on behalf of FAO. All stressed the need for early warning (EW) systems to be brought together to […]
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Ministers Adopt Recommendations and Roadmap on Curbing Livestock Rustling in the IGAD Region
IGAD Center for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) with financial support from European Union and Technical Cooperation Fund (EU-TCF) organized a two-day workshop on cattle rustling in the region. The regional technical high-level experts validation meeting on findings of the social and economic costs of livestock rustling in the region was held on 2nd-3rd […]
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Christine Norah
