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Risk Factors for Reproductive Disorders and Major Infectious Causes of Abortion in Sheep in the Highlands of Ethiopia
Community-based sheep breeding programs (CBBPs) were established in Ethiopia since 2010. Improved rams from CBBPs need to be disseminated. However, there is a risk of transmitting reproductive diseases to other community ...
Livestock CRP Priority Country Project proposal
This plan outlines key components of what the Livestock CRP will be proposing as a 3-year project to consolidate CRP research to date and translate it into a pilot integrated package of interventions. The project will ...
Welfare Impact of Community-Based Veterinary and Breeding Services on Small Ruminant Keepers
Improved breeding practices and participatory health services have been designed and implemented by a partnership between national and international institutions in various parts of Ethiopia since 2014. Based on a panel ...
Report on the Gender Capacity Development (GCD) Activities by LCRP Partners in Ethiopia.
Based on an assessment of gender capacity and the needs expressed by partners, CRP Livestock initiated a pilot capacity development program to strengthen the gender integration capacities of livestock value chain partners ...
Epidemiology of nematode parasites of sheep around Jimma, southwestern Ethiopia
An investigation was made into the epidemiology of nematode infections of sheep in two districts of Jimma zone, southwestern Ethiopia. We used two approaches—long-term monitoring of identified sheep for nematode infection ...
The Subjective Well-being Effects of Imperfect Insurance that Doesn’t Pay Out
In this paper we estimate the effects of an imperfect insurance coverage on subjective well-being of a poor, rural population, by exploring whether insurance in force improves subjective well-being and whether insurance ...
System dynamics modeling in designing breeding schemes: The case of Menz sheep in Ethiopian highlands
A comprehensive dynamic simulation model was developed to describe a community-based breeding program for the Menz sheep population of Ethiopia. Selection of male and female animals based on their own and maternal performance ...
Market Linkage between Community-Based Goat Breeding Cooperatives and Export Abattoirs
Small ruminant population of Ethiopia, including expert estimates of the pastoral areas, is about
66 million heads of which about 35 million is sheep (Negassa et al., 2011). Small ruminants
provide about 46% of the national ...
Gender Capacity Development of Research and Development Partners: Gender strategy (internal and external gender equity objectives) prepared by partner organizations during the GCD training workshops
Research and development partners of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (CRP
Livestock) from Adiyo district, Bonga Agricultural Research Centre, Debre Berhan Agricultural Research
Centre, Menz Mama district and Menz ...
Reproductive Performances and Survival of Washera Sheep under Traditional Management Systems at Yilmanadensa and Quarit Districts of the Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
On-farm data were collected to evaluate reproductive performance and survival of Washera sheep raised under traditional smallholder production systems in the North-Western highlands of the Amhara National Regional State, ...