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Water footprint assessment of sheep and goat production in the agro-pastoral production system in the region of Sidi Bouzid in Central Tunisia
There is an increasing concern on the continuous and rapid decreaseof water availability across the whole territory particularly in central and southern Tunisia. This constraint is adversely affecting livestock production ...
Value chain assessment of sheep production in Central Tunisia: a comparison study between Barbarine and Algerian Thin tail breed
Throughout the last decade, fat tail Barbarine sheep have been the dominant breed within livestock production systems in Tunisia and possess significant phenotypic and genetic production advantages over other breeds. In ...
Effect of stocking rate on biomass variation and lamb performances for barley stubble in Tunisian semi arid region and under conservation agriculture conditions
The integration of livestock in the practices of conservation agriculture (CA) was assessed in Tunisian
semi-arid conditions. Forty five Barbarine lambs (aged 220 ± 10 days, average body weight 20 ± 2.5 kg)
were used in a ...
Démarche innovante pour la création d’une chaîne de valeur "Agneau Barbarin de Sidi-Bouzid"
Le développement de l'élevage ovin à viande a été basé principalement sur certains maillons de la filière plutôt que sur une approche de système de production intégré. En dépit, des efforts déployés pour améliorer ce ...
Business plan and feasibility analysis of an On-farm solar powered milk cooling system
This chapter focuses primarily on the development of a business model for three livestock projects in the region of Sidi Bouzid in order to compare their financial profitability and feasibility. These models were developed ...
Setting up a Community based flock management programs
Integration is based on the principle of the interactions between two or more components of the production system. Interactive research based on interdisciplinary approach involving NARS and ICARDA’s scientists is important ...
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Crop residues (CR) have become a limited resource in mixed crop-livestock farms. As a result of the increasing demand and low availability of alternative resources, CR became an essential resource for household activities, ...
Addressing Gender Issues to enhance adoption of the innovative solar powered milk cooling solution for the higher efficiency of the dairy subsector in Tunisia
The objectives of the rapid gender assessment in the Sidi Bouzid project target site was to understand the specific gender contexts and identify key gender issues that could help to develop gender indicators for the project ...
Effect of the infection with the nematode Haemonchus contortus (Strongylida: Trichostrongylidae) on the haematological, biochemical, clinical and reproductive traits in rams
This study aimed to investigate the effect of Haemonchus contortus infection on rams’
haematological, biochemical and clinical parameters and reproductive performances. A total
number of 12 Barbarine rams (control and ...
Water Footprint Assessment of Sheep and Goat Raised Under the Agro-pastoral Production System in the CRP Dryland Systems Action Site of BeniKhedache-SidiBouzid(Tunisia)
The document presents the study conducted in Tunisia. The main objective was to estimate the Water footprint of sheep and goat produced in Zoghmar community (SidiBouzid, Tunisia) justified by the fact that no knowledge so ...