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Dietary change in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa: historical changes and future food consumption perspectives
The objective of this brief is to provide an outlook on historical dietary changes and future trends of diets by 2050 in selected Asian, SSA, and MENA countries. The study further focuses on the anticipated importance of ...
Sheep Fattening is Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Youth, Including Young Women in Ethiopia
Traditionally, subsistence sheep fattening systems in rural Ethiopian Highlands offer limited income
potential for the farmers. Improved sheep fattening practices and technologies adopted
by 44 youth groups in 50 kebeles ...
Gender-based drivers of participation in sheep breeding cooperatives in Ethiopia
Collective actions and formation of cooperatives are crucial for small ruminant community-based breeding programs.
Women’s participation in agricultural cooperatives is generally low in Ethiopia and the lack of participation ...
Gender Issues in Livestock Systems in Ethiopia
Understanding gender differences and social dynamics in livestock systems is essential to the design of gender sensitive interventions that equitably address the priorities of male and female smallholder farmers and other ...
Livestock, Employment, and Economic Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This policy draft is withdrawn from the results of a forthcoming paper (under review) referenced as: Frija Aymen, Dolapo
Enahoro, Ameur Wafa, Ouerghemmi Hassen. (Forthcoming). Contributions of livestock to agricultural ...
Feed the Future - USDA Livestock Improvement Project and the African Goat Improvement Network (AGIN)
Fish and livestock are critical to communities, livelihoods, nutritional status, and economic development. Globally, the livestock sector employs 1.3 billion people and contributes up to 50% of global agricultural GDP, and ...
Ram Certification: A means to ensure the right genetics is used
Conventional breed improvement systems have proved effective in the developed countries where commercial type of production is common. Such systems, for the most part, have failed to bring similar results in developing ...
Investment in livestock market sheds improves market participation and income from small ruminants: Evidence from Ethiopia
The livestock marketing system in Ethiopia hardly receives any attention from policy makers and rural development practitioners. However, investments in livestock market developments need to be part of the rural development ...
Livestock keepers in rural Ethiopia are willing to pay for livestock market facilities
This brief summarizes the key policy findings of a recent
article published by ICARDA scientists. Based on stated
preferences elicited from a sample of 360 randomly selected
farm householders, the study revealed that ...
Community-Based Breeding Programs and upscale strategies for sheep and goats in Ethiopia
Community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) for sheep and goats have been operating in
Ethiopia for a decade and genetic progress in growth and reproduction traits has been
observed together with other socio-economic ...