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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 ...
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 ...
Performance of the sheep breeders' cooperatives in Ethiopia
Ethiopia priority country project is a 3-year project designed to consolidate the individual pilot
interventions CRP research has been implementing since 2012 and translate that into a pilot
integrated package. The project ...
The current state on characterisation of indigenous breeds of sheep and goats in Ethiopia
From the beginning of domestication, the transportation of domestic animals resulted in genetic and demographic processes that explain their present-day global distribution, genetic diversity and structure. Animal genetic ...
SmaRT-Ethiopia Program: Update report on partners and actors landscaping and engagement
For the implementation of the Ethiopia priority country program on Small Ruminant Value Chain Transformation (SmaRT-Ethiopia), partners and actors at national and local level play a key role in research and development ...
Celebrating 10 years of Community-Based Breeding Program in Ethiopia
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and South Agricultural Research Institute
organized a two-day event in Bonga and Jimma ...
Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach
This study estimated the economic value of agricultural climate services for strengthening the
resilience of smallholder farmers to climate variability and risks in Ethiopia. Using a choice
experiment approach, the study ...
Ethiopia Priority Country Program annual report
The Ethiopia priority country project focuses on Small Ruminant Value Chains (SRVCs) to supply a growing market in Ethiopia with quality products. Since 2013, ICARDA and ILRI, with partners, have been pilot-testing and ...
Community-based breeding program integration in Ethiopian Universities
Community-based breeding program is an emerging and alternative genetic improvement
approach in smallholder and resource poor farming systems. The program is participatory in
nature that captures farmer’s indigenous ...
Upscaling Konso goat community based breeding programs to the surrounding base populations
Sheep community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) were started in Ethiopia in
2009. Since then CBBPs has been expanded in many areas in the country as well as
other countries following promising results in genetic progress ...