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The destruction of December 26, 2005 tsunami at Aceh has included the loss of domestic farm animals, the loss of related infrastructure, and the animal feed resource base. In the affected areas, such livestock made an important contribution to the household economy and rehabilitating this sub-sector will be important for restoring their livelihoods to former levels. Therefore, there is a need for support to the rehabilitation of the animal production through restocking activities, animal health accompanying measures and reconstruction of related infrastructure. 

Once the ‘relief mode’ turned into ‘rehabilitation mode’, any efforts on agricultural–based rehabilitation act as a focal point to restore the community livelihoods including the livestock sub - sector development.

An International Workshop on Livestock Innovations for the Tsunami Affected Areas Rehabilitation and Reconstruction has held at Bogor on September 14, 2005, discussed the above matters. More than 70 participants from different stakeholders, either came directly from Aceh or other location, sat together to formulate the right approach to the livestock sub-sector rehabilitation in Aceh. This event initiated by Indonesian Center for Animal Research and Development (ICARD) at Bogor, Indonesia. World Agroforestry Centre participate on the event by sharing ideas on a presentation titled “CGIAR support for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Aceh post-Tsunami” presented by Meine van Noordwijk and Gerhard Manurung. The presentation presents the ideas behind and beyond CGIAR efforts on Aceh Rehabilitations and Reconstruction, based on previous Meulaboh assessment and the development of CGIAR Post Tsunami Initiatives website portal.

Interested to know more detail? Please contact Anggoro Santoso.

For further details please visit:
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea/W-New/aceh.asp

WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE - SOUTH EAST ASIA
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea