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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...