ACIAR |
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
AELIA |
available enzyme amplified immunoassay |
AGCD |
Administration Generale de la Cooperation au Developpement |
ATLN |
African Trypanotolerant Livestock Network |
B/CR |
benefit/cost ratio |
BoLA |
bovine lymphocyte antigens |
CFAF |
CFA Franc (Communaute financiere africaine unit of currency) |
CGIAR |
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research |
CIDT |
Compagnie Ivoirienne des Textiles |
CIP |
Centro Internacional de la Papa |
CIPEA |
Centre International pour l'Elevage en Afrique |
CIRAD |
Centre International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement |
CREAT |
Centre de Recherches et d'Elevage Avetonou, Togo |
CRTA |
Centre de Recherches sur les Trypanosomoses Animales |
CSRTC |
(see ISCRTC below) |
CTVM |
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine |
CV |
coefficient of variation (%) |
D |
dalasi (Gambian unit of currency) |
DPP |
Developpement du Progres Populaire |
DRDR |
Direction Regionale du Developpement Rural |
EAVRO |
East African Veterinary Research Organization |
EDF |
European Development Fund |
EEC |
European Economic Community |
e/g |
eggs/gram |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
GDP |
gross domestic product |
GTZ |
Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
IBR/IPV |
Infectious Bovine Rhinotrachitis/Infectious Vulvavaginitis |
IBSNAT |
International Benchmark Soils Network for Agrotechnology Transfer |
IBSRAM |
International Board for Soil Research and Management |
IDRC |
International Development Research Centre |
IEMVT |
Institut d'Elevage et de Medicine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux |
IFAD |
International Fund for Agricultural Development |
IFAT |
indirect immunofluorescent antibody test |
IITA |
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
ILCA |
International Livestock Centre for Africa |
ILRAD |
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
INERA |
Institut National pour l'etude et la Recherche Agronomiques |
INIBAP |
International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain |
IRR |
internal rate of return |
IRRI |
International Rice Research Institute |
ISCTRC |
International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control |
ITC |
International Trypanotolerance Centre |
KARI |
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute |
KETRI |
Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute |
KSh. |
Kenya shilling (unit of currency) |
LDP |
Livestock Development Project |
L.S. |
least-squares |
LW |
liveweight |
MHC |
major histocompatability complex |
n.a. |
not applicable |
NARS |
National Agricultural Research Service |
NAPRI |
National Animal Production Research Institute |
n.d. |
no data |
NPV |
net present value |
NS |
not significant |
OAU |
Organization of African Unity |
ODA |
Overseas Development Administration |
OGAPROV |
Office Gabonais d'Amelioration et de Production de Viande |
OIE |
Office International des Epizooties |
ORSTOM |
Office de le Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer |
PBM |
peripheral blood mononuclear cells |
PCV |
packed cell volume (%) |
PI |
productivity index |
PPR |
Peste des Petits Ruminants/peripneumonia |
PRECODEPA |
Programa Regional Cooperativo de Papa |
RFLP |
restriction fragment length polymorphism |
s.d. |
standard deviation |
s.e. |
standard error |
SIT |
sterile insect technique |
SODEPRA |
Societe de Developpement des Productions Animales |
SPAAR |
Special Programme for African Agricultural Research |
STRC |
Scientific and Technical Research Commission |
TLU |
tropical livestock unit (250 kg) |
UK |
United Kingdom |
UN |
United Nations |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
USA |
United States of America |
USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
WHO |
World Health Organization of the United Nations |
WW |
weaning weight |