We in Livesstock Industry Foundation For Africa,a non profit livestock food security NGo, believes in the approprateness of a syndicated multi stake holders and institutional collaboration in creating solutions to various agro ecological risks affecting sustainable livestock in the global agricultural food system
We believe that such synergistic collaboration will create and identify innovations of practical solutions to critical challanges facing man and his agricultural practices by the current upsurge of climate change scenario
Climate change is today the World greatest challanges to global plant and animal sustainable food production
Iwill make my contribution from the angle of our experiences in Livesstock industry foundation for Africa here in Ibadan Nigeria .The persistence desertification,slow onslaught of draught,and the interrupted occurrences of flood are just a few of the disaster posed by climate change to sustainable livestock food production and livestock farmers livelihood in South Sahara Africa (SSA)
Several innovations to minimize vulnerabilities and increase resiliency of livestock farmers to climate change effects of low yield, hunger and conflicts are mandatory for a reawakened sustainable livestock food production for Africa and help to promote a balance nutrition in pro poor communities of the third World countries most of who reside in the developing regions of the world
Over 30 million pastoralists are at a constant rust of indiscriminate roaming looking for forage for their animals in Africa ,and about 10 million of this population can be foundNigeria and along the West Africa axis experiencing the viagries if climate change impact on their stock and their livelihood ,aside of other livestock farmers that keep intensive and wellbintegrsted small ruminants and monogastrics such as poultry and swine
All of then are seriously under the yoke of climate change wether sedentary or in migration.All these categories of farmers stock and their livelihood are of great concern to Lifango and should be to every dedicated livestock civil society
The core problem facing food scarcity and precipitating conflicts and political unrest ,created by youth restlessness in Africa today I'd advancing desert encroachment ,drying most of our river basins and especially the lake chard from providing secure of farming and grazing to arable farmers and grass for pastoralist .This situation now cause serious conflicts in Nigeria Chard Burkina Fasso and in deed most north Africa Livestock dominated regions
The worst part of the conflicts are perhaps recorded in the souther regions of the countries where roaming herds men are constantly in gun and matcheting conflicts with arable farmers just for lack of forage for transboubdary livestock
Complicating the above scenerio is the economic recession faced by most countries and particularly countries that are monolithic oil dependents
The sequell9 of the above scenerio are poor agricultural yield oh animal foid be it large animals small ruminants or the monogastrics
SOLUTIONS
We in Livesstock Industry Foundation For Africa believe even as we do practice that it is appropriate to harness native intelligence and m ordern scientific approaches and innovations in empowering our youths and encourage them to believe and have faith in settled or ranching livestovk farming
It is in view of this that we believe in sharing knowledge on the approaches and some solutions on which lifangobnine pillar initiatives was founded by a group of Nigerians and ecpertrites for which Dr .Stephen .Adejoro has the credit of the vision
www.lifango.org is the address of web site to view some activities of this NGO
The Nine point initiatives are designed to provide solutions to the challanges of the agro ecological adversity facing livestock and Livestock livelihood in Africa
THE INNOVATIONS
The Solutions expected from the Nine pillar initiatives are capitalized into knowkedge for adoption by farmers and youths and arethis NGO hold lien of this solutions which are outcome of ice 40 decades intensive studies and case reports on livestock management on thefied by practitioners
I will briefly identify these initiatives/innovations for which interested reader can 're view in the NGO blog.lifango.org or at http://lifango.org/public/resources
1Social enterprises developed to add value to the herds women milk turning them to yo6 and cheese that may be fact6into school feeding programme ,various shopping mores and directly into the national G.DP
2Strong advocacy for mycotoxin mitigation especially for settled monogastric and dairy farmers to improve knowledge and produce safe meat egg and meat while sustaining better capacity utilization of their set objectives
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3
Livestock Mixed portfolio cooperative empowerment programmes
This innovation is identified empiwerment initiative for restless youths as well as retirees in rural and peru urban locations in west Africa
A practical book published to improve the knowledge of youths in .africa titled livestock Mixed portfolio:A cooperative farming for youth is now internationally published by Lamark publishers of Germany and in circulation by hhttps://www.amazon.com/Livestock--portfolio-cooperative-farming4
4 National inclusion of LEGS Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards as appropriate innovative tool by disaster agencies to mitigate livestovk disasters and livelihood of livestock farmers
5Avian Influenza vaccination advocacy in countries practicing NO vaccination Policy in Africa and who have declined resources to compensate farmers stock that are stamped out
6 Education and capacity development
We encourage formation of research based livestock NGO as we are to keep all documentation of field studies and case studies as solution for futureoccurences ,and such cases must be knowledge capitalised as synergy to academic research by universities
We have found such studies useful in the control of vaccination failures to ND and Mareks diseases of poultry in .Africa
7 Advocacy for safe water usages by livestock farmers as a sure approach to minimise water borne diseases in animals and a complementbof One Health One Medicine approach
8 Agro ecological vaccination peculiarity ,as we discourage a broad based universal vaccination protocol for all agro ecological regions that differ in epixootioligy and climate
9Analytical processing of data to structural far at of easy understanding to farmers
CONCLU.SIONS
We propise these initiatives and approaches ,as roles We believe that civil society livestovk ..NGo can share with relevant stake holders gathered together in the committee on Agro ecological approaches and otherinnovations for sustainable livestock agriculture and animal food system that will enhance animal foid protein security :Arole that Livestock Industry Foundation For Africa can play
Thank you for granting us this opportunity to contribute and share oyrcexperience in providing possible solution to this global issues
Dr Stephen Adejoro writes on behalf of Lifango a registered Livestock NGO in Nigeria
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