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Congruence between selection on breeding values and farmers' selection criteria in sheep breeding under conventional nucleus breeding schemes
Designing breeding schemes suitable for smallholder livestock production systems in developing regions has hitherto been a challenge. The suggested schemes either do not address farmers' breeding goals (centralized ...
Syria - Participatory barley breeding—farmers’ input becomes everyone’s gain
Kherbet El Dieb, north of Aleppo, is one of 24 Syrian villages involved in a participatory plant breeding (PPB) initiative started by the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA). Yields there ...
CAC News No 47. January-March 2011
In this issue:
a) Halophytes as a potential source of renewable energy
b) Aeroponic technology tested in Uzbekistan
c) New varieties of vegetable crops released in CAC region
d) Information on new projects
e) Important ...
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, ...
The Goat and Goat Production Systems of Small-Scale Producers of the Comarca Lagunera, in Northern Mexico
A baseline study was conducted in the Comarca Lagunera in the North of Mexico to evaluate the potential for implementation of a breeding program. A questionnaire was applied to 64 producers to document the production system. ...
CAC News No 49-50. July-December 2011
In this issue:
a) Exploring institutional options for joint management of a transboundary river in Fergana Valley (p. 4)
b) Successful collaborative research on potato in Uzbekistan results in new government funding (p. ...
Guidelines for Setting up Community-based Sheep Breeding Programs in Ethiopia: Lessons and experiences for sheep breeding in low-input systems
These guidelines are designed for all those involved in planning and implementing sheep breeding activities with resource-poor farmers in developing countries. This includes research centers, non-governmental organizations ...
Discordances between morphological systematics and molecular taxonomy in the stem line of equids: A review of the case of taxonomy of genus Equus
This paper revises the evolutionary history of the stem root of the genus Equus from Eocene period (54 million years before present, MYBP) to present. It also assesses molecular taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of ...
Community-based alternative breeding plans for indigenous sheep breeds in four agro-ecological zones of Ethiopia
Based on the results of participatory approaches to define traits in the breeding objectives, four scenarios of ram selection and ram use were compared via deterministic modelling of breeding plans for community-based sheep ...
Guidelines for Setting up Community-based Sheep Breeding Programs in Ethiopia: Lessons and experiences for sheep breeding in low-input systems
These guidelines are designed for all those involved in planning and implementing sheep breeding activities with resource-poor farmers in developing countries. This includes research centres, non-governmental organizations ...