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While it’s true that many African countries already consume less or no meat compared to developed nations, it remains crucial to steadfastly promote the benefits of a preventative approach—#EatingLessMeat.

development banks must stop funding factory farming, instead, they should support and help expand truly sustainable farming projects with a focus on plant-based proteins and high animal welfare, that takes into account the needs of animals, local communities and the environment

On 9th August 2021, the IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) released their sixth assessment report which consists of contributions from each of the three IPCC Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, which integrates the Working Group contributions and the...

Kenyan consumers could be eating contaminated meat from the country’s major supermarkets. This is according to a study by World Animal Protection which is challenging stakeholders to improve animal welfare and ensure responsible use of antibiotics to reverse the trend.

The State of the World’s Antibiotics 2021 report by Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), on the state of antibiotics introduces country dashboards that capture progress on indicators that track AMR and show what remains to be done to decrease the need for antibiotics and their inappropriate use.

Demand is a key lever that unlocks different options for farming practices and sparing land for nature (i.e. driving demand for economic growth drives intensification and makes it more difficult to both preserve natural land and farm sustainably)

An assessment by the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) on the adoption of battery cages as a means of poultry production in Kenya revealed that their use is increasingly gaining popularity among small-scale peri-urban and urban farmers.

Leaders of the G20, on Sunday 22nd November 2020 asserted that they will: continue tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and zoonotic diseases based on the One-Health approach

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as a number of key international experts, have agreed to set up a One Health High-Level Expert Council to collect, distribute and publicize reliable scientific information on the links between human, animal and environmental health.

The purpose of this guideline is to give direction to health care workers on how to establish and run AMS programmes in health care settings and the community at large.