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Livestock Innovations, Social Norms, and Women’s Empowerment in the Global South
Livestock have strong empowerment potential, particularly for women. They offer millions
of women in the Global South the opportunity to provide protein-rich foods for home consumption
and sale. Livestock provide women ...
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.
Whole-genome resequencing of wild and domestic sheep identifies genes associated with morphological and agronomic traits
Understanding the genetic changes underlying phenotypic variation in sheep (Ovis aries) may facilitate our efforts towards further improvement. Here, we report the deep resequencing of 248 sheep including the wild ancestor ...
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 ...
Gender issues in livestock production systems in Ethiopia: A literature review
Studies on gender and livestock in Ethiopia are scanty and localized in terms of geographic coverage and gender issues covered. Nevertheless, gender issues in livestock that could potentially influence livestock policy and ...
Progress Report on Phenotyping Indigenous Tunisian Sheep Breeds for Resistance to Ticks
This is a report of the preliminary dataset on phenotyping Tunisian local sheep breeds for resistance to ticks.
Livestock Genomics for Developing Countries – African Examples in Practice
African livestock breeds are numerous and diverse, and typically well adapted to the harsh environment conditions under which they perform. They have been used over centuries to provide livelihoods as well as food and ...
Developing and testing improved analytical tools for priority setting of livestock research
A quantitative assessment tool, previously developed for the prioritization of livestock research at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), was adapted for use in the phase II proposals of the CGIAR research ...
Contribution of livestock to agricultural development in a set of set of developing countries.
The objective of this paper is to analyse the contribution of livestock to economic development and employment growth in a set of developing countries. it is confirmed that livestock is an important economic asset for ...
Ticks of Tunisia, a review
Ticks are ectoparasites of wild and domestic animals and vectors for several pathogens of medical importance and are at the origin of dramatic losses in livestock production. In Tunisia, a total of 18 tick species belonging ...