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ITP: Healthy livestock – safe food

The international training programme (ITP) Healthy livestock – safe food integrates animal health and food security while exploring several value chains from farm to fork.

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The ITP “Healthy livestock – safe food” aims to reduce poverty of small holder farmers in southern and east Africa through improved animal health and reduced antimicrobial resistance, with a focus on organisations in the livestock sector from farm to fork. Photo: Jonas Johansson Wensman/SLU

The overall objective of the programme is to reduce poverty and vulnerability among smallholder farmers. More specifically, the programme addresses how improved health in food producing animals can impact a sustainable and safe production of animal derived products, including how this interrelates to a reduced usage of antimicrobials.  

The programme is a part of the Swedish International Development Agency’s (Sida) work with capacity and institutional development for low-and middle-income countries in priority areas.

The ITP programme Healthy livestock – safe food is planned and implemented by several Swedish governmental authorities in cooperation: the Swedish Veterinary Agency, the Swedish Board of Agriculture and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Partner countries are Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

 

Last updated : 2024-10-30