Handbook for planning and managing CAHWs programmes
Since the early 1990s, Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) have been trained to provide basic animal health and production services to livestock farmers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. They fill a gap in areas where public and private veterinary services lack the capacity to intervene regularly, improving the livelihoods of millions […]
Animal genetics
Because it promises better performance and therefore potential economic gains, the genetic improvement of livestock is often acclaimed and seen as a providential lever for development. However, if genetic improvement projects are to be a success in terms of the development of small-scale livestock farming, they need to avoid a number of pitfalls, by analysing […]
Traditional animal health pratices
For a number of years, AVSF has been studying “ethnoveterinary” knowledge or traditional health practices in the areas where it operates. These practices are tried and tested and represent a means of improving the health of livestock at an acceptable cost to farmers. They also support a One Health approach and the development of livestock […]
Annual Report 2023
The activity report is the most comprehensive document for everything you need to know about AVSF’s missions and the 2023 balance sheet.
Cities connected to the steppes thanks to a sustainable, high-quality and remunerative meat industry
Context Occupying 80% of Mongolia’s territory, some 800.000 of its 3.3 million inhabitants depend directly on semi-nomadic livestock farming for their livelihood. The sector suffers from severe pasture degradation, accentuated by the explosion in the number of cashmere goats, extreme climatic events and a lack of diversity in market opportunities. For the rural population, this […]
The essential role of poultry farming in the equilibrium of farming families
After a particularly complicated and violent period in its history under the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia can boast of having halved its poverty rate between 2014 and 2022. Even if extreme poverty is still far from being eradicated today, this progress proves that it is not inevitable. In the villages, after rice, poultry farming is […]
Animal health in southern Madagascar
High-performance, resilient breeding
Sustainable livestock farming in the southern mountains
In the mountainous areas of southern Ethiopia, the vast majority of farms are small family holdings of less than one hectare. On their plots, families combine livestock with crops to maintain soil fertility, consume milk and sell dairy products. AVSF supports these families in optimizing milk production, by working on : The benefits are threefold: […]
Elephants and humans living together
Context In the heart of Zambia, Kafue National Park is the scene of increasingly frequent and severe conflicts between local populations and elephants. As the population grows, farmland is expanding into elephant habitat. In their search for food elephants sometimes trample and consume the crops of farming families. Among the crops most prized by the […]
Community and integrated zoonosis surveillance
Senegal: Setting up and running a network of veterinary auxiliaries. Cambodia: Community interventions to reduce and prevent the risk of zoonotic emergence. Madagascar: Development and/or reinforcement of surveillance capacities for priority zoonotic diseases, in line with local, regional and national needs and contexts.
Strengthening the socio-economic and environmental resilience of local communities
In southern Iraq, the wetlands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are a UNESCO biodiversity heritage site. Its population, the Marsh Arabs or Maadan, suffered destruction and persecution under the regime of Saddam Hussein, who completely drained the marshes in the 1980s and 1990s. For these people, who have lived for millennia […]
