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Hygienic practices and microbial contamination of small-scale poultry slaughter houses at peri-urban areas of Hanoi, Vietnam by Nguyen Viet Khong, Pham Thi Ngoc, Dinh Xuan Tung, Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Unger, Fred, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham Duc, Pham Thi Nga, Gilbert, Jeffrey

“…To understand the overall of current veterinary hygiene situation concerning microbiological contamination of food, we have conducted a survey, interview, collecting and analyzing samples derived from poultry (alive and carcasses), slaughter environment of 36 small slaughter houses in the rural area of Hanoi. …”
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Variations in packed red cell volume and trypanosome prevalence and relationships with reproductive traits in East African Zebu cows exposed to drug-resistant trypanosomes by Rowlands, G.J., Woudyalew Mulatu, Nagda, S.M., D'Ieteren, G.D.M.

“…Mean PCV decreased and mean trypanosome prevalence increased during lactation. There was a significant linear association between the time detected parasitaemic during lactation and calving interval. …”
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Livestock sustaining intensive smallholder crop production through traditional feeding practices for generating high quality manure-compost in upland Java by Tanner, J.C., Holden, S.J., Owen, E., Winugroho, M., Gill, M.

“…The occurrence of high densities of ruminant livestock is counter-intuitive considering the extent and continuous nature of cropping on densely populated islands such as Java where little land remains suitable for grazing. As a consequence, livestock are permanently housed in backyards and fed indigenous forages cut from field margins and roadsides. …”
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Feed intake, sperm output and seminal characteristics of Ethiopian highland sheep supplemented with different levels of leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) leaf hay by Dana, N., Tegegne, Azage, Shenkoru, T.

“…Volume of ejaculate (0.36 vs. 1.1 ml for L200), sperm concentration (2.8 vs. 71.1 X 10(9) ml-1 for L300), and total number of spermatozoa per ejaculate (1.96 vs. 5.92x10(9) per ejaculate for L300), increased significantly as a result of supplementation. Testicular size showed significant differences among treatment groups and generally increased with supplementation. …”
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Grazing, social and comfort behaviour of Ankole and crossbred (Ankole × Holstein) heifers on pasture in south western Uganda by Huber, R., Baumung, R., Wurzinger, Maria, Semambo, D.K., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Winckler, C.

“…Individual distances were lower in Ankole heifers and more herd mates were found within a radius of 5 m around the Ankole animals. The most important comfort behaviour pattern in both genotypes was self-licking, which occurred to similar frequency in Ankole and crossbred heifer groups. …”
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Impacts of intensive dairy production on smallholder farm women in coastal Kenya by Mullins, G., Wahome, L., Tsangari, P., Maarse, L.

“…Farms were stratified according to male or female extension contact. A female enumerator interviewed the wife or female head of household on each farm regarding her present and past household responsibilities and the effects of the intensive dairy enterprise on these duties and upon the welfare of the household. …”
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Effects of Trypanosoma vivax infection during pregnancy on feed intake, nitrogen retention and liveweight changes in West African Dwarf ewes by Akinbamijo, O.O., Reynolds, L., Gort, G.

“…Nitrogen retention at mid-pregnancy on a metabolic size basis was higher in CH ewes than in CM and IMH ewes. …”
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Screening forage and browse legumes germplasm to nutrient stress: II. Tolerance of Lablab purpureus L. to acidity and low phosphorus in two acid soils by Mugwira, L.M., Haque, I.

“…Although lablab (Lablab purpureus L.) is grown in many parts of Africa relatively little investigation has been done on its adaptation to acid soils, which are generally low in available In the present study, lablab was evaluated for tolerance to acidity and low available P on two Ethiopian soils. The two soils were a Nitosol (Soddo soil) and clay loam with 77 percent Al saturation (Chencha Soil). …”
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Effect of level of milk feeding and type of housing on the performance of crossbred calves (Bos taurus X Bos indicus) and Zebu calves (Bos indicus) by Osuji, P.O., Khalili, H., Umunna, N.N., Sibanda, S., Shenkoru, T.

“…The performance of 40 crossbred calves (Bos taurus, Friesian X Bos indicus, Boran) and 40 Zebu (Boran) calves, from live days after birth to 12 weeks of age, in two separate experiments, was evaluated regarding the effects of two levels of milk (2 or 3 L day-1) and two types of housing (barn (indoors) or hutch (outside)) on intake of a complete supplement, weaning age and weight, live weight, and average daily gain. …”
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Effects of land-use and tsetse fly control on bird species richness in southwestern Ethiopia by Wilson, C.J., Reid, Robin S., Stanton, N.L., Perry, Brian D.

“…Species composition was highly dissimilar (40-70 percent dissimilarity) comparing among land-use types, with many species found only in a single type. This implies that trypanosomiasis control that results in land conversion from wooded grasslands to small-holder farming in this region may have no adverse impacts on bird species numbers but will alter composition. …”
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Endopeptidase variations among different life cycle stages of African trypanosomes by Mbawa, Z.R., Gumm, I.D., Fish, W.R., Lonsdale-Eccles, John D.

“…Lysates of different life‐cycle stages of Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma brucei were analysed for endopeptidase activity, using reaction conditions which permitted a distinction to be made between lysosomal and non‐lysosomal activity [Lonsdale‐Eccles, J. …”
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Nitrogen fixation by annual forage legumes and its contribution to succeeding wheat in the Ethiopian highlands by Haque, I., Lupwayi, N.Z.

“…Grain yields of the first wheat crop following the various lablab crops were 93-125 percent higher than grain yields of the wheat following wheat (continuous wheat) where no N fertilizer was applied. Therefore, lablab is a potential forage crop for incorporation into cereal production systems to improve feed quality and to reduce dependence on N fertilizers for cereal production.…”
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Non-genetic factors affecting early growth traits and survival in Horro sheep by Abegaz, Solomon, Duguma, G., Gelmesa, U., Terefe, F., Negussie, E., Rege, J.E.O.

“…In general, there are indications that there exists a critical BWT (about 2.6 kg) below which the survival of lambs declines drastically.…”
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Impact of high temperature on pollen germination and spikelet sterility in rice: comparison between basmati and non-basmati varieties by Chakrabarti, B., Aggarwal, Pramod K., Singh, S.D., Nagarajan S, Pathak, Himanshu

“…At 35.5°C, variety Pusa Sugandh 2 (basmati) recorded a pollen sterility of 17% and 26% reduction in pollen germination. …”
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Diversity of Rhizoctonia spp. causing Foliar Blight on Brachiaria in Colombia and Evaluation of Brachiaria Genotypes for Foliar Blight Resistance by Álvarez, E., Latorre, M., Bonilla, Ximena P., Miles, John W., Sotelo, G.

“…These results will contribute to a greater understanding of the interaction of diverse Rhizoctonia isolates on different Brachiaria genotypes, supporting improvement of Brachiaria spp. for disease resistance.…”
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Effect of mineral supplementation on milk yield and calf growth of camels in Marsabit district of Kenya by Kuria, S.G., Gachuiri, C.K., Wanyoike, M.M., Wahome, R.G.

“…A study was conducted in Ngurunit and Kargi locations of Marsabit district in Kenya to determine the effect of mineral supplementation on milk yield and calf growth of settlement based camels. …”
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Flock structure, level of production, and marketing of three Ethiopian goat types kept under different production systems by Tadesse, D., Urge, Mengistu, Animut, G., Mekasha, Yoseph

“…This study was conducted to characterize three Ethiopian indigenous goat types in terms of their composition and dynamics, productivity, and marketing. A set of semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect information from 155 goat owners based on single-visit-interviews. …”
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Ultra-barcoding in cacao (Theobroma spp.; Malvaceae) using whole chloroplast genomes and nuclear ribosomal DNA by Nolan K., Sveinsson, S., Dempewolf, Hannes, Ji Yong Yang, Dapeng Zhang, Engels, Johannes M.M., Cronk, Q.C.B.

“….• Conclusions: Our data demonstrate that UBC is a viable, increasingly cost‐effective approach for reliably distinguishing varieties and even individual genotypes of T. cacao. …”
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Improving resilience to climate impacts in West Africa through improved availability, access and use of climate information: dialog with users by Ali, Abdou, Djibo, Hamidou, Minoungou, Bernard, Dinku, Tufa, Platzer, Barbara

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Water user associations in northern Ghana: from institutional panacea to reality check by Acheampong, Ernest Nti, Venot, Jean-Philippe

“…Organizing local farmers in a WUA would then increase their sense of ownership, leading to better performance of the system. …”
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