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Web Sites with Information and Resources Related to Smallstock and Development

Since many of these Internet resources provide information that is relevant to several different thematic areas or categories, the following list of Internet resources is presented in alphabetic order.

Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).

Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge

Eggs and Nutrition. Nutritional values of the egg.
FAO's AFRIS: Animal Feed Resources Information System. Feed Resources Group, Animal Production and Health Division, FAO, Rome.
FAO's Animal Health Disease Cards. Animal Production and Health Division, FAO, Rome.
FAO's DAD-IS: Information system for the Global Strategy for the Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR).
FAO's HIV/AIDS and Food Security Website.
FAO's Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative.
FAO's Publications on Agricultural Marketing.
FAO's Rural Radio.
FAO's Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme.
FAOSTAT. FAO Statistical database.
IFAD. Livestock Feeding.

IK Pages: Gateway to Indigenous Knowledge.

Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD).
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS).
Livelihoods Connect: Creating Sustainable Livelihoods to Eliminate Poverty.

Livestock Research for Rural Development (LRRD). The international journal for research into sustainable developing world agriculture.

Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative. Livestock and Environment Toolbox. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome.

The Livestock and Environment Toolbox is an electronic decision support tool for policymakers, planners and project leaders less familiar with livestock environment interactions, to help them identify which ones should be encouraged (beneficial) or mitigated (adverse). The toolbox offers technical and policy or institutional development options, together with suggestions for increasing awareness of the issues among policymakers, planners and extension officers.

LPP Online. DFID Livestock Production Programme.
Maryland Cooperative Extension. Sheep 201: A Beginner' s Guide to Raising Sheep.
Network for Smallholder Poultry Development.
Address: Dyrlægevej 2, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. Email: poultry@kvl.dk.
OIE: Technical disease cards.
Oklahoma State University. Breeds of Livestock.

PigTrop web site. French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development.

This site is hosted by CIRAD at http://pigtrop.cirad.fr. Email: pigtrop@cirad.fr and vincent.porphyre@cirad.fr. Includes sections on Animal health, Animal nutrition, Genetic, Environment, Socio-economy, Quality & food safety, Animal husbandry. Sections in both French and English.

Poverty Mapping web site:

A Joint initiative by FAO, UNEP and the CGIAR to promote the use of poverty maps in policy making and targeting assistance, particularly in the areas of food security and environmental management.

SAGA: Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Section 1. Nutritional Disorders. Chapter 2. Malnutrition.
The Merck Veterinary Manual - 8th Edition Online.
UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
University of Reading: Index of Poultry Diseases.

World Bank: Indigenous Knowledge Program.

World Health Organization HIV/AIDS Programme.
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).