A5068768424- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Helminth infection and control
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
Queen's University Belfast
2023-2024
University of Sussex
2022
Institute of Development Studies
2022
The true value of goats, their management systems, and the limitations smallholdings have not been fully explored in context sustainable livelihoods among rural smallholders central Malawi. However, goats are an essential part as transferable assets sources household nutrition, especially at times food insecurity aligned to ever more variable climate. To study impact goat ownership Malawi's Lilongwe district, surveys were performed across four villages covering 148 households from...
Smallholder goat production plays a major role in rural livelihoods and food security Malawi, but suffers from drastic unpredictable losses. While is closely linked to small-scale local markets for slaughter butchering, the perspectives of butchers their potential as source animal health information are largely untapped. Butchers can provide insights into status at well issues that go unseen before slaughter, such presence indigestible foreign bodies (IFBs). IFBs include solid materials...
Smallholder households in arid environments keep goats for nutritional security and livelihood sustenance due to their climatic resilience portability as economic non-economic safety nets. Goat health performance are however often strongly limited by parasites, diseases poor nutrition. Infection parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes is rife costly anthelmintic drugs extension services. It difficult, however, quantify the impact of enhanced animal on resource-poor farmers' livelihoods...