Measuring Impact

Research that works for developing countries and Australia

 

Animal Health

Research Program Manager: Dr Doug Gray
email: gray@aciar.gov.au

ACIAR's investments in animal health and production will largely focus on issues that enable smallholder farmers to refine their livestock management toward production and income-generation, in contrast to 'keeping' livestock solely as an asset. These issues include aspects of the market such as prices; seasonal trends; product quality and market access (including biosecurity) to reduce the risks involved in moving from a household-based to a market economy. Development of health programs for country-species-disease combinations and other livestock husbandry technologies will be considered where clear institutional pathways for adoption of the results of research by smallholders exist and where Australia has experience and expertise.

Animal Health has a focus on the following themes, with the emphasis on diseases of regional significance:

Transboundary diseases
Zoonotic diseases
Diseases affecting production
Diseases affecting trade and market access

The impacts derived will be reduced disease-control costs, improved animal productivity, improved product quality and improved market access. Increasingly the emphasis will shift from production-related diseases to those of national and regional importance (usually rapidly spreading viral disease) and those affecting trade and human health.

Within each theme, ACIAR will address gaps in the successful management of a disease and may include defining the disease issue or problem, understanding the biology of the disease (epidemiology, modelling), improving the ability to detect diseases (pathology, refinement of old tests, development of new tests or platforms), application of diagnostic tests to disease surveillance systems and refinement of these systems and development and application of control measures.

For more information see IAS38 Future directions for ACIAR's animal health research.

Relevant Publications

AR 2007-08 - Annual Report 2007-08

PR128 - Management of classical swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease in Lao PDR

CP16 - Adoption of ACIAR project outputs: studies of projects completed in 2003-2004

MN133 - Overcoming liver fluke as a constraint to ruminant production in South-East Asia

WP59a [Mandarin] - A survey of the mineral status of livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China

FR2008-28 - Feeding papaya fruits and betel nuts to reduce parasite burdens and increase growth rate in pigs

FR2008-29 - Control of Newcastle disease and identification of major constraints in village chicken production systems in Myanmar

FR2008-20 - A scoping study investigating opportunities for improving biosecurity on commercial poultry farms in Indonesia

FR2008-10 - Identifying research priorities for development of the beef industry in Cambodia and Lao PDR

FR2008-06 - Vaccine business development in the Lao PDR

FR2008-04 - Food safety research in Indonesia: a scoping study and ACIAR's response

FR2008-01 - Assessment of zoonotic diseases in Indonesia

TR67 - Grassland degradation on the Tibetan Plateau: the role of small mammals and methods of control

FR2007-01 - Future directions for animal health services in Indonesia

AR 2006-07 - Annual Report 2006-07

EXT05 - National Agriculture Development Plan 2007-2016

PMg Jul-Oct 07 - Partners Magazine July - October 2007

AOP 2007-08 - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

TR65 - A review of animal health research opportunities in Nusa Tenggara Timur and Nusa Tenggara Barat provinces, eastern Indonesia

CP09 - Country Profiles 2006

EXT01 - Master Plan for Agricultural Research Cambodia

CoP01 - Australian Prawn Farming Manual

IAS38 - Future directions for ACIAR's animal health research

AR 2004-05 - Annual Report 2004-05

WP59 - A survey of the mineral status of livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China

PMg July 05 - Partners Magazine July 2005

PMg September 04 - Partners Magazine September 2004

PMg June 04 - Partners Magazine June 2004

MN113 - Worm Control for Small Ruminants in Tropical Asia

CP10 - Country Profiles 2005

AR 2003-04 - Annual Report 2003-04

PR117 - Control of Newcastle Disease and Duck Plague in Village Poultry

MN100 - Field Methods for Rodent Studies in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

IAS23 - Improved methods for the diagnosis and control of bluetongue in small ruminants in Asia and the epidemiology and control of bovine ephemeral fever in China

AR 2002-03 - Annual Report 2002-03

MN058 - Understanding Animal Health in Southeast Asia: Advances in the Collection, Management and Use of Animal Health Information

MN054 - Survey Toolbox for Livestock Diseases: A Practical Manual and Software Package for Active Surveillance in Developing Countries

MN087 - Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Laboratory Manual

PR094 - Classical Swine Fever and Emerging Diseases in Southeast Asia

MN082 - Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Field Manual

PR074 - Sustainable Parasite Control in Small Ruminants

PR075 - Jembrana Disease and the Bovine Lentiviruses

MN005 - Newcastle Disease in Poultry: A new food pellet vaccine

PR103 - SADC Planning Workshop on Newcastle Disease Control in Village Chickens

MN034 - Breeding for Resistance to Infectious Diseases in Small Ruminants

PR073 - Mineral Problems in Sheep in Northern China and Some Other Regions in Asia

PR039 - Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens

TR30 - A Review of the Biology and Management of Rodent Pests in Southeast Asia

MN037 - Detection and Treatment of Mineral Nutrition Problems in Grazing Sheep

MN007 - Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Asian Livestock

MN086 - Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Training Manual

PR044 - Bovine Ephemeral Fever and Related Rhabdoviruses

PR051 - Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Southeast Asia

MN057 - Haemorrhagic Septicaemia

PR066 - Bluetongue Disease in the Asia-Pacific Region

MN088 - Developing forage technologies with smallholder farmers - how to grow, manage and use forages