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Business Model: Supply of Livestock Inputs - Shaya Women's Sheep Fattening Youth Cooperative
In most countries, agricultural inputs are mainly sold by private sector businesses. Lack of livestock production inputs is a core problem particularly for livestock farmers in Ethiopia. This is due to the limited number ...
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 ...
Report on the Gender Capacity Development (GCD) Activities by LCRP Partners in Ethiopia.
Based on an assessment of gender capacity and the needs expressed by partners, CRP Livestock initiated a pilot capacity development program to strengthen the gender integration capacities of livestock value chain partners ...
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 ...
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. ...
Business Model: Production and Supply of Livestock Feeding Equipment_Buta Shuta Youth Cooperative, Ethiopia
Feed accounts for 75% of production costs for livestock farmers. A reduction in feed costs or feed productivity would significantly improve the financial situation of sheep farmers. Feed storage and feeding equipment are ...
Developing marketing models for fattened and breeding small ruminants: Report of a Scoping study report
One important intervention in the Small Ruminant value chain Transformation Project in Ethiopia (SmaRT Ethiopia) under the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) Livestock is developing marketing models for major products. This ...
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 ...