ETHNOVETWEB - the ethno-veterinary website
Website announcement, November 2001:
The site is about ethnoveterinary medicine, or how people around the world
keep their animals healthy and productive, and how development can build
on this information.
Content:
Ethno-veterinary mailing list to foster networking on local animal healthcare and production
This email mailing list enables computer users world-wide to share
information on local knowledge of animal healthcare and production. It is
supervised by an international team of moderators and is hosted by the Centre
for International Research and Advisory Networks (CIRAN) of NUFFIC, Netherlands.
The field of ethno-veterinary medicine offers great potential for development.
It covers everything that animal raisers, through trial-and-error and deliberate
experiments, know and use to keep their animals healthy and productive. This
includes herbal medicines, local tools and management practices, and information
and beliefs about diseases, animal production and breeding.
Livestock development efforts have been slow to build on ethno-veterinary
knowledge, rarely taking advantage of traditional livestock health care and
production practices. A major reason for this is the lack of formal links
between individuals and organisations involved in ethno-veterinary medicine
and livestock development. Stronger links allow cross-fertilisation
of experience and learning from others' successes and failures.
The mailing list is open to all interested in the study and application
of ethno-veterinary medicine. Participants include veterinarians, livestock
specialists and related disciplines such as ethno-botanists, pharmacologists,
economists and social scientists. They can be field practitioners, clinicians,
scientists, staff members of government and non-governmental organisations
and training institutions, extensionists, healers, farmers, representatives
of the private sector, or policy makers.
Participants may join in the discussions, ask questions, comment on
relevant issues, circulate requests for information, contribute abstracts
and project summaries, send announcements for conferences, books or websites,
etc. The list allows direct interaction between the participants. Messages
sent to the list will automatically be distributed to all participants.
Subscribing to the mailing list is easy, and it's free.
To subscribe send a blank email to: join-EVM@lyris.nuffic.nl
To UNsubscribe send a blank email to: leave-evm-400R@lyris.nuffic.nl
Check us out at: http://www.nuffic.nl/ik-pages/
If you have questions, please contact Gerard van Westrienen at
gerardw@nuffic.nl
or Evelyn Mathias at evelynmathias@netcologne.de.
Please share this announcement with others who might be interested.
2002: Dear All,
ARCHIVES: The archives of the EVmailing list are available on the Web, at
the following URL:
http://lyris.nuffic.nl:3335/scripts/lyris.pl
Click on "Ontwikkelingssamenwerking " (this is Dutch for Development cooperation) and then on "evm".
You'll need to enter your email address and password (if you chose one) to continue.
To retrieve a copy of the 'Welcome message' that contains information on the
archives and the various list options and commands, send a message to:
lyris@lyris.nuffic.nl
with the following command in the BODY of the message: 'get EVM hello'
Ethnoveterinary medicine: alternatives for livestock development: Proceedings
of an international conference held in Pune, India, 4-6 November 1997.
Both Volumes of the Proceedings of this Conference are now on the internet
in 10 files (9 for Volume 1, 1 for Volume 2):
Volume 1: Selected Papers: 9 files
Summary of contents, Preface,
Acknowledgements
Introduction & Part 1:
Applied studies of ethnoveterinary systems
Part 2: Validation of Ethnoveterinary
Medicine
Part 3: Ethnoveterinary medicinal
plants and plant medicines
Part 4: Application of ethnoveterinary
medicine
Part 5: Education
Annexes
Tables 1-4 from Paper 'Scope
of homoeopathy in veterinary practice', Part 4
Table 'Ethnoveterinary Projects'
from Annexes
Volume 2: Abstracts: 1 file
Abstracts
Integrated approach for animal health care: Proceedings of the international
seminar held at Kozhikode, India on 4-6 February 1999. Volume 1: Abstracts
This seminar looked at the integration of ethno-veterinary medicine
with allopathic drugs and vaccines in animal health services,
with case studies from all around the world.
full report
Ethno-veterinary knowledge of the Dinka and Nuer in Southern Sudan. Studying
ethnic knowledge of animal health and treatment with a view to integrating
it into existing livestock health programmes. 1996
Adolph, A.; Blakeway, S.; Linquist, B. J. / CAPE, OAU , 1996
This report catalogues the ethno-veterinary knowledge (EVK) and local
veterinary knowledge of the Dinka and Nuer peoples with a view to integrating
this knowledge into community animal health services. It attempts to do this
recognising that such work can also help to support and strengthen local
culture. The study comprised of interviews, observation and collection of
medicinal plant varieties.
Whilst identifying the key features of EVK in the region the study found
that:
Nuer ethno-veterinary knowledge: a resource manual findings of a preliminary
study. Nuer veterinary knowledge and western veterinary knowledge: can they
complement one another? 2001
Blakeway, S.; Linquist, B.J.; Adolph, D. / Community-based Animal Health
and Participatory Epidemiology Unit (CAPE), OAU , 2001
This study is associated with the OLS Livestock Programme. The study attempts
to investigate whether the work of the programme could be better integrated
with local Nuer veterinary knowledge and practice.
The article finds that:
Some Ethnoveterinary Information from South Sudan. 2002
by Tim Fison BA, VetMB, MRCVS (64 pages)
Preamble: This article on EVK in Southern Sudan is simply an initial attempt
to present some local veterinary and livestock husbandry practices. The
author makes no claims that it is a comprehensive account. For example,
the sections on clinical signs and treatments of diseases in goat, sheep
and chickens are not yet finished. It is very much a 'work in progress' and
should be viewed as a basis for discussion and further improvement: it is
a rough-hewn document needing editing and refining. Much more cross-checking
and rigorous translations are needed. However, if it is of some help to new
people starting to do livestock work in South Sudan and serves as a stimulus
to further EVK documentation, then it will have served some purpose.
A Word or .rtf version of this document (including the above Preamble and
Acknowledgements which are missing from the .pdf version) is available by
e-mail from Vetwork.
full report in .pdf
format (download time might be prolonged)
Karamojong Scientists: Participatory Field Trial of a Local Dewormer. 2000
Presented at the Uganda Veterinary Association Scientific Conference, ‘The
Veterinary Profession and Poverty Alleviation' 28-29 September, 2000
Dr. Jean T. Grade & and Mr. Longok Anthony, Christian Veterinary Mission/World
Concern, P.O. Box 22, Moroto, Karamoja. ethnovet@maf.org
Abstract: The pastoralists of the arid-semi-arid and insecure Karamoja
of Northeastern Uganda rely upon their livestock for their livelihood and
have developed many local techniques and medicines to insure their health.
This paper shares findings of ongoing participatory field trials of Albezia
anthelmentica as an economically viable way to deworm their livestock.
Twenty local and privately owned animals were divided into control and test
groups with a Karamojong traditional healer and herdsmen performing all
aspects of the experiment. As compared to the negative control, A. anthelmentica
was 76.3% efficacious at 12 days post treatment, 69.4% at 16 days and
77.2% at 19 days. The percent reduction of fecal egg counts were 76.3% at
12days, 96.3% at 16days and 80.4% at 19 days post treatment. While the trials
are still ongoing, the authors are encouraged by the preliminary validation
trial of A. anthelmentica and the Karamojong's technical abilities.
full report
Learning about Liei: participatory diagnosis of the chronic wasting problem
in cattle in southern Sudan. Participatory diagnosis: a fertile method for
investigating cattle wasting diseases in southern Sudan. 2000
Catley, A. CAPE, OAU , 2000
This article discusses a cattle disease called liei or noi, a disease
predominantly found in Southern Sudan.
The article finds that:
Participatory research on bovine trypanosomosis in Orma cattle, Tana River
District, Kenya. Participatory research: a fertile methodology for improving
disease control among Kenyan pastoralists? 2000
Catley, A.; Irungu, P. CAPE, OAU , 2000
This report describes small-scale participatory research on bovine trypanosomosis
with Orma pastoralist communities in Tana River District (Kenya). The research
aimed to combine the perspectives of researchers and livestock keepers to
identify ‘best bet’ interventions to improve disease control. The participatory
research methodology was intended to initiate a partnership between researchers
and communities leading to action, and in turn, further learning and refinement
of project activities.
The article finds that: