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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 ...
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 ...
Gender Empowerment in Sheep Fattening for Youth & Women’s Groups in Ethiopia
A training report on gender empowerment for sheep fattening youth and women groups.
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
Reproductive performance and productivity of local and Dorper x local crossbred ewes under community-based management system, Ethiopia
This study evaluated the reproductive and productivity of local and Dorper crossbred ewes in a community-based management system. We analyzed data collected from 2013 to 2021, taking into account different factors such as ...
Entrepreneurial Skills for Smallholder Livestock Keepers: A Training Manual (Amharic)
A Training Manual (Amharic) on the Development of Entrepreneurial Skills for Smallholder Livestock Keepers.
Effect of processed sweet lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) grain supplementation on growth performance and socioeconomic feasibility of Doyogena sheep in Ethiopia
Background
The experiment evaluated the effect of supplementing sheep fed natural pasture hay with processed sweet lupin grain on growth performance and its economic feasibility. The finding revealed that use of steamed ...
Genetic and non-genetic parameter estimates for growth traits and Kleiber ratios in Dorper × indigenous sheep
Genetic improvement programme will only be successful when accompanied by a good understanding of
the influence of different environmental factors, knowledge of the genetic parameters and the genetic
relationships between ...
Introduction to Entrepreneurial Skills Development
Training Material for entrepreneurship skills development training.