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Simple smokers to improve traditional dairy products
Smoking of milk utensils is a crucial traditional practice to develop the product’s desired organoleptic characteristics. Fumigation also assures quality and safety of milk and dairy products. Traditional fumigation often ...
Dietary change in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa: historical changes and future food consumption perspectives
The objective of this brief is to provide an outlook on historical dietary changes and future trends of diets by 2050 in selected Asian, SSA, and MENA countries. The study further focuses on the anticipated importance of ...
Milk fat separation to accelerate butter production and reduce labour
Milk fat separation increases the efficiency of butter processing with enhanced quality. Milk fat separation will increase the milk returns through processing high value products from the skimmed milk. The separation of ...
Sheep Fattening is Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Youth, Including Young Women in Ethiopia
Traditionally, subsistence sheep fattening systems in rural Ethiopian Highlands offer limited income
potential for the farmers. Improved sheep fattening practices and technologies adopted
by 44 youth groups in 50 kebeles ...
Gender-based drivers of participation in sheep breeding cooperatives in Ethiopia
Collective actions and formation of cooperatives are crucial for small ruminant community-based breeding programs.
Women’s participation in agricultural cooperatives is generally low in Ethiopia and the lack of participation ...
Gender Issues in Livestock Systems in Ethiopia
Understanding gender differences and social dynamics in livestock systems is essential to the design of gender sensitive interventions that equitably address the priorities of male and female smallholder farmers and other ...
Livestock, Employment, and Economic Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This policy draft is withdrawn from the results of a forthcoming paper (under review) referenced as: Frija Aymen, Dolapo
Enahoro, Ameur Wafa, Ouerghemmi Hassen. (Forthcoming). Contributions of livestock to agricultural ...
Feed the Future - USDA Livestock Improvement Project and the African Goat Improvement Network (AGIN)
Fish and livestock are critical to communities, livelihoods, nutritional status, and economic development. Globally, the livestock sector employs 1.3 billion people and contributes up to 50% of global agricultural GDP, and ...
Ram Certification: A means to ensure the right genetics is used
Conventional breed improvement systems have proved effective in the developed countries where commercial type of production is common. Such systems, for the most part, have failed to bring similar results in developing ...
Thermometers to improve traditional dairy products
The use of thermometer in dairy processing to enhance product quality