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  • Farmer-to-Farmer awareness Campaign Reduces Burden of RVF in Rwamagana

    Francine Andrew

    January 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Rwamagana

    The Livestock Farmers Field School trains prominent farmers in how to prevent, spot, and treat Rift Valley Fever in their cattle. Trainees then lead information sessions in their communities, raising local awareness of the disease and helping small farmers address symptoms before the disease progresses.

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  • Conservationists Are Saving America's Prairies by Selling Them Off

    Marcello Rossi

    January 16, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Nature Conservancy uses conservation easements to protect prairie land in Oregon. These legal agreements allow landowners to sell their land to the conservancy but continue to use it for activities like farming and ranching.

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  • Can This Beef Cooperative Become ‘the West's Largest Climate-Smart Ranching Program'?

    Caroline Tracey

    January 10, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Country Beef Natural cooperative partners ranchers with scientists to help them learn about the best regenerative practices for the land their herds graze on and monitor whether new practices are improving the health of the land.

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  • Rwanda combating Rift Valley Fever disease using mobile phones

    John Mugisha

    December 06, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Mobile applications such as iCow and Smart Nkunganire System allow Rwandan farmers to submit data and information about disease symptoms they observe in their cattle, which is then reviewed by community animal health workers and veterinary professionals. The data has helped identify outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever and improve vaccination efforts.

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  • Can This Chicken Company Solve America's Food Waste Problem?

    Lisa Held

    November 30, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Do Good Foods makes chicken feed from supermarket surplus foods to keep food from ending up in landfills emitting methane.

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  • A Pellet That Stops Cows From Burping Climate-Warming Methane

    Sybilla Gross

    November 29, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Australia, Perth

    Australian company Rumin8 is creating feed additives containing bromoform to reduce methane emissions from livestock without depending on seaweed farming.

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  • Livestock insurance Keeping Livestock Farmers Afloat in Rwanda after Rift Valley Fever

    Francine Andrew

    November 25, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Eastern Province

    Rwanda has a unique program that allows farmers to insure their livestock, such as dairy cows, productive pork, and chickens, against Rift Valley Fever. When animals die of the disease, farmers are compensated at a rate of 5.5 percent of the animal's value.

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  • Could Seaweed Help Slow Climate Change?

    Greg Bledsoe

    October 26, 2022 |

    NBCLX |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A type of red seaweed can be added to cows' diets to reduce the methane they emit.

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  • Rwanda: free livestock vaccination aids control of rift valley fever in Nyagatare

    Francine Andrew

    October 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    To help stem the spread of Rift Valley Fever among livestock, the Rwandan government launched a free vaccination campaign that leveraged private veterinarians to administer the inoculations. More than 275,000 animals were vaccinated against the disease.

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  • Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching

    Ray Levy Uyeda

    September 26, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Cheyenne River Reservation, United States, South Dakota

    Regenerative agriculture — a technique originally developed by Native peoples — is a farming practice that can not only improve the quality of farms and their products but also serves as a response to growing climate change concerns. While regenerative agriculture currently only accounts for 10% of farms and ranches today, the numbers are slowly increasing.

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