Digital platform enhances genetic progress in community-based sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia

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Published on June 2020

byInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

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Getachew, T., Haile, A. and Rischkowsky, B. 2020. Digital platform enhances genetic progress in community-based sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia. Poster prepared for the Virtual Livestock CRP Planning Meeting, 8-17 June 2020. Addis Ababa: ICARDA.

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Getachew, T.
Haile, Aynalem
Rischkowsky, Barbara A.

animal breeding
data
goats
innovation systems
sheep
small ruminants

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