How beef cattle are helping lift Laos women out of poverty

Mark Phelps
Updated May 15 2019 - 11:36am, first published May 14 2019 - 12:00pm
POVERTY BUSTERS: PhD student Nichola Calvani (centre back) with research assistant Francesca Earp (in pink) is managing a trial to control liver fluke in the Laos cattle herd.
POVERTY BUSTERS: PhD student Nichola Calvani (centre back) with research assistant Francesca Earp (in pink) is managing a trial to control liver fluke in the Laos cattle herd.

IMPROVING the health and nutrition of the South East Asian cattle herd is playing a direct role in lifting women out of poverty.

Mark Phelps

Mark Phelps

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