Because we have 70 years of experience of tropical veterinary medicine and animal production. Through our tropically targeted teaching and research programmes, and knowledge of current issues we are in a position to view livestock development in Asia, Africa and Latin American in an impartial way. The CTVM provides a range of training courses in many aspects of international animal health and production. These can be taken as formally taught courses leading to a postgraduate degree or as short non-graduating courses or modules.
All courses have a modular structure with a wide choice of modules.
The subject matter is concerned with international animal health, tropical veterinary medicine and tropical animal production. A new MSc course, to be launched in October 2002, will focus on Wildlife Management and Health. According to current forecasts, the demand for human food produced by animals in tropical countries will double in the next 20 years. For this and other reasons, the production and use of animals in the tropics for income, food, power or other purposes is becoming more challenging. Land is continually being taken up for alternative uses and countries struggling with economic difficulties cannot always provide the level of physical inputs required for optimum livestock production.