Commodity: Livestock
Rio+20: A missed opportunity?
After two weeks of a plethora of events and meetings, the Rio Earth Summit ended amid disappointment and divisions. The…
21 August 2014
Driving sustainable cattle production in Northern Namibia
Namibia is a country with immense ecological diversity. The communal pasture areas in the north of the country are overgrazed…
20 August 2014
Improving cattle production systems in Western Bahia
With more than 2 million hectares of pastures, the western region of Bahia in Brazil provides for an ideal setting…
South America: Solidaridad focus first livestock programme on poverty-stricken Amazon families
Cash strapped families on the Amazon frontier struggle to overcome the cycle of rural poverty so common throughout the developing…
Stimulating rural livestock production in South Africa
South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is one of the poorest areas in South Africa. This project aims to capacitate smallholder…