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Community-based breeding programs for small ruminants in pastoral production systems
The small ruminant production system in Ethiopia is predominantly at the subsistence level
with very low productivity despite a huge potential due to the large animal numbers and
genetic diversity. Growing market demand ...
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.
SmaRT-Ethiopia Program: Partners and actors landscaping report
For the implementation of the Ethiopia priority country program on Small Ruminant Value Chain Transformation (SmaRT-Ethiopia), national partners play a key role in all research and development activities. The Theory of ...
Site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
The document presents the site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
Efficiency of artificial insemination as a scaling tool of sheep breeding schemes
The study investigated, for artificially-inseminated (AI) Menz ewes, the reproductive performance of prostaglandin-based treatments simultaneously to the standard “P4+eCG” protocol using progestogens priming with intravaginal ...
Strengthen sheep and goat community-based breeding programs in Ethiopia towards scaling
Sheep and goat community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) has been implemented in Ethiopia since 2009. Initiated by the ILRI-ICARDA-BOKU, the programs are currently overseen by the International Research Center for Agricultural ...
Establishment of breeders’ cooperatives in the priority country CBBP sites
Background
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 packages. ...
Upscaling of community-based breeding programs in Ethiopia: 2020 report
Background
In Ethiopia pilot community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) have been designed and
implemented since 2010 by a team of researchers from the International Center for
Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, the ...
Optimization of community-based breeding programs
Any breeding program undergoes numerous stages of improvement and adjustment and is never completely flawless from the beginning. Initial selection in the community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) were made only based on ...
Field guideline for low-cost artificial insemination of sheep and goats in Ethiopia
These guidelines are elaborated in the specific context in which CBBP’s are run in Ethiopia. Following an overview of the anatomical and physiological aspects of reproduction in sheep and goats that are important to AI, ...