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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.
Report of the regional workshop on sustainable intensification of mixed croplivestock farming systems in Northern Ghana, Tamale, Ghana, 27‐28 August 2012
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Animal Research Institute (ARI) convened a 2‐day Inter‐Regional Workshop on Sustainable intensification of mixed croplivestock farming systems in the three ...
Improvement of dual purpose barley for forage and straw for livestock
A total of 660 barley accessions representing land races, advanced genotypes and cultivars from different regions of the world were screened for straw traits like dry matter, Ash content, organic matter, nitrogen, crude ...
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies
worldwide. But they operate in radically different ways. In principle, these could offer complementary or
substitute means of ...
Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world’s first insurance for African pastoralists
This sample size was distributed across the 16 sub-locations in Marsabit on the basis proportional allocation using
the 1999 household population census statistics. There were only two exceptions to this rule: a minimum ...
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.
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 ...
On farm and off-farm feed utilization and improved management options: A Synthesis
The challenges identified in the proposal of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Livestock, for enhancing livestock production and productivity, have been the shortage of quality feeds, inefficient utilization of feed ...
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
Basis risk – the remaining risk that an insured individual faces – is widely acknowledged as the Achilles Heel of index insurance, but to date there has been no direct study of its role in determining demand for index ...
Institutional Innovations to Transform the Small Ruminant Value Chain in Mali
Institutional Innovations to Transform the Small Ruminant Value Chain in Mali.