Livestock are vital to the livelihoods of the world’s rural poor, and vaccines are a key component of livestock disease prevention and control worldwide. Vaccines have a major role in protecting animal health and public health, reducing animal suffering, enabling efficient production of food animals, and greatly reducing the need for antibiotics to treat food and companion animals. However, these important benefits can be seriously compromised by poor vaccine storage and handling.

A training manual for smallholder vegetable farmers in western Pacific island nations

  This manual brings together state-of-the-art methods for the study of root-nodule bacteria, both in the free-living state and in symbiosis with legumes. In each chapter, the manual introduces a topic and provides guidance on how study of the symbiosis might best be tackled.

This value-chain research and training manual consolidates experience from ACIAR projects across Asia and Africa. It sets out the practical steps in adopting a value-chain perspective to understand how to increase the profitability of agrifood value-chains collectively, and of smallholder farmers in particular. The manual is designed to evolve as ACIAR’s knowledge continues to grow, by incorporating future case studies and training materials to offer new insights. We invite contributions

  This review has drawn on published research and the collective insights of a small team of experienced researchers to identify important trajectories in rice-based farming systems and to draw out the implications for agricultural research as a basis for discussion within ACIAR and the broader research community working on smallholder rice-based farming systems in MSEA.

The dynamic changes taking place in Africa, especially those caused by increasing population and climate change necessitate renewed efforts in food production, natural resources management and protection of the environment. In the past, Agricultural Research and Development agencies used diverse approaches to share ‘best practices’/’best bet options’ with the farming community but there has been often disappointing impact at farm level.

Agricultural recovery after a tsunami; helping vulnerable rural communities in the event of another tsunami.

This is an invaluable reference book on the opportunities for crop yield increase to feed the world to 2050. Written by three world-renowned agricultural scientists, it is aimed at agricultural scientists and economists, decision-makers in the food production industry, concerned citizens and tertiary students. It includes information on crop area and yield change for wheat, rice, maize, soybean and 20 other important crops; a detailed tour of the key breadbasket

This manual, produced by the Southern Cross University and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community with the financial support of ACIAR, is designed for sea cucumber fishers in the Pacific islands. It provides best-practice processing methods that can be applied by fishers using resources in their own villages.

This is the Indonesian translation of “Integrating Herbaceous legumes into crop and livestock systems in eastern Indonesia”. One method of improving the productivity of both animals and crops is by growing herbaceous legumes, either in annual rotation with a cereal or after wet-season cereal production, when land is traditionally left fallow and allowed to grow weeds.

This guide will help students, extension officers and farm advisers, in Australia, Cambodia, and in countries facing similar challenges, grow healthy tomatoes, capsicums, chillies and eggplants. A Khmer translation is available on this website.

Melaleucas: their botany, essential oils and uses

This is the first detailed guide to the bony fish species that are caught and marketed in Indonesia. The bilingual (English and Indonesian) layout contains information on identifying features, size, distribution and habitat of 873 bony fish species recorded during intensive surveys of fish landing sites and markets. This full-colour identification guide is the result of a joint collaborative project between Indonesia and Australia and is an essential reference for fish scientists, fisheries officers, fishers, consumers and enthusiasts.