In many Asian countries, women play a significant but varying role in the management of livestock and the use of common resources plays an important role in animal husbandry, and can affect the health of some types of livestock. This paper concentrates on village livestock in Thailand and makes...

At the third meeting of the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) Sub-Commission for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Southeast Asia in February 1997, it was acknowledged that foot-and- mouth disease (FMD) is still present in most Southeast Asian countries, in particular Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos,...

Changes in the economic, demographic and political characteristics of Thailand have had a strong impact on the traditional nature of Thailand’s agriculture and livestock industries over the last few decades. This paper outlines the development of the Thai dairy industry and discusses economic...