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Technical guideline for reproductive biotechnologies of sheep and goat in Ethiopia
Reproductive biotechnology in animal production is widely used to increase production, reproductive efficiency and rates of
genetic improvement (Madan, 2005). According to NRC (2003), animal production biotechnology is ...
Business Model: Supply of Livestock Inputs - Shaya Women's Sheep Fattening Youth Cooperative
In most countries, agricultural inputs are mainly sold by private sector businesses. Lack of livestock production inputs is a core problem particularly for livestock farmers in Ethiopia. This is due to the limited number ...
Impact Evaluation of Gender Capacity Development of Livestock CRP Research and Development Partners in Ethiopia
This Gender Capacity Development (GCD) Impact Evaluation (IE) Survey involved three Development and Research Partners whose staff members participated in two GCD trainings organized by ICARDA in 2016 and 2017. The IE ...
Estimation of (co)variance components, genetic parameters, and genetic trends of growth traits in community-based breeding programs of Bonga sheep
Community-based sheep breeding programs (CBBPs) have been adopted strategically to improve Bonga
sheep, the most popular sheep breed in Ethiopia. The present study was undertaken to estimate genetic
parameters and genetic ...
Community-based breeding programs for small ruminants in pastoral production systems
The small ruminant production system in Ethiopia is predominantly at the subsistence level
with very low productivity despite a huge potential due to the large animal numbers and
genetic diversity. Growing market demand ...
Converting multi-trait breeding objectives into operative selection indexes to ensure genetic gains in low-input sheep and goat breeding programmes
Small ruminant breeding programmes in low-input production systems are best organised at the community level. Participant farmers have to agree on goal traits and their relative importance. When BLUP breeding values of ...
Field synchronization of Ethiopian Highland sheep for fixed time artificial insemination: improvement of conception rate with a double injection of prostaglandin at 11 days
The study investigated, for fixed time artificially inseminated (AI) Menz ewes in field trials, the reproductive
performance of prostaglandin-based treatments simultaneously to the standard ‘P4+eCG’ protocol. A total
of ...
Feed and Forages in Ethiopia Long Film
The long video describes major activities of ICARDA and ILRI in the framework of CRP livestock "Feed and Forages" like the support of community based sheep fattening
Youth Groups breaking gender barriers in market-oriented sheep fattening in Ethiopia
The approach on scaling sheep fattening using youth groups is breaking gender barriers
Technical and institutional certification of breeding rams in Ethiopia
This report is a preliminary attempt to describe the technical and institutional requirements for certification of improved rams selected in the framework of the community-based breeding programs in Ethiopia.