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Uganda eyes new system to measure, reduce livestock emissions

What you need to know: Farmers urged to adopt better manure practices to fight climate change. Livestock farming, long regarded as a backbone of Uganda’s rural economy, is facing renewed scrutiny as ...
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Inside Karamoja's High-Stakes Livestock Vaccination Mission

In Karamoja, livestock is not just an asset class; it is the operating system of the local economy. Cattle and goats function simultaneously as savings, insurance, food supply, and social capital. It ...
The Independent

Fast-growing goat breed signals new push for livestock productivity and exports

Mbarara, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s livestock sector has long been constrained by slow-growing local breeds and ...
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Cattle farming expansion and unchecked climate change would expose more than 1 billion cows to heat stress

More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published ...
The Conversation

Losing a calf to wolves in Sweden hurts. But if lions take one in Uganda, a farming family’s income is gone

Alexander Richard Braczkowski received funding from Griffith University and the Southern University of Science and Technology when carrying out this study. Christopher J. O'Bryan is a Postdoctoral ...