Garden veterinary has role in spearheading food security and safety. Its qualified staff understands that livestock/pet/animal production and health depends heavily on the ecosystem which comprises various components including:

• Physical environment: Atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedolithosphere;
• Biological environment: Flora (plants), fauna (animals), food and animal producers, consumers and decomposers.
• Social environment: Sociocultural, economic, legal, political, technological

These components interplay each other in one way or the other in animal production and health. Tropical Africa is one of the least developed regions of the world. It comprises of the world’s poorest countries with agriculture as the mainstay of most of the economies. In most of the African countries, development in agriculture has not kept pace with population growth. Self sufficiency in food production is declining in most countries and dependency on food imports has been rapidly increasing. Performance of the livestock sector as a part of agriculture has been particularly disappointing. Garden Veterinary Services Ltd has identified this as an opportunity to offer consultancy services with easy and convenient programs to African Governments, non-governmental organizations and private farms on the following cross-cutting issues in livestock production and health;