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Herd health packages: Packed
with impact not surprises
Barbara Wieland
CGIAR Livestock review and planning meeting, 10
June 2020
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• This is
Deriba
• A farmer in
rural
Ethiopia
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There are many reasons why
she wants to have animal
health advice and solutions …

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• Advice and solutions
we scientists have
been studying

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Wouldn’t it be nice…

… if Deriba could
have access to
herd health
packages …
That address animal health holistically
That are relevant to her context and provide
acceptable solutions to her problems?
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Our herd health packages are developed in
an iterative, participatory process and
comprise different interventions 1. Record
status
and
practices
2. Analyze
problems
3. Set
goals
4.
Interventions
5. Follow-
up
Technical
interventions
Institutional
interventions
Gender
sensitive
Capacity
development

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Technical interventions
• Reproductive health
• Farm performance recording
• Husbandry
• Disease control

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Capacity development: through gender-sensitive
community conversations
Abayanesh Tefera
Livestock farmer

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Institutional interventions: engage extension, governments and private sector
partners in multi-stakeholder platforms to take up this approach

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Legacy
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Where next?
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The legacy we
want
Herd health fully integrated into animal health systems so
farmers can worry less about the health of their animals

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‘Un-packers and packers’
Michel Dione, Peter Oba, Mesfin Mekonnen, Wole
Kinati, Biruk Alemu, Gezahegn Alemayehu, Hiwot
Desta, Mamusha Lemma, Annet Mulema, Elin
Gertzell, Elisabeth Genfors, Magdalena Jakobson,
Renee Bage, Abdi Etafa, Solomon Gizaw, Dagim
Berhanu, Henry Kiara, Arvid Uggla, Ulf Magnusson
Most importantly: NARS researchers and livestock
farmers in Ethiopia and Uganda

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock aims to increase the productivity and profitability of livestock agri-food
systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and eggs more available and affordable across the developing world.
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The program thanks all donors and organizations which globally support its work through their contributions to the CGIAR system
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