Skip to main content
ILRI corporate report 2026: Advancing Sustainable Livestock - explore now

Secondary navigation

  • Search
  • Microsites

Main navigation

  • About
    • Overview
    • People
    • Supporters
  • Research
    • Themes
      • Health
      • Livestock, Genetics, Nutrition, and Feed Resources
      • People, Policies, and Institutions
      • Livestock, Climate, and Environment
      • Innovations scaling and impact
    • Projects
    • Capacity development
    • Research support
      • Research compliance
      • Communication and knowledge management
      • Intellectual property and legal unit
      • Data and research methods
    • ILRI Hubs
      • BecA-ILRI Hub
      • Livestock and climate solutions hub
    • Facilities
      • Centre for tropical livestock genetics and health
      • ILRI Genebank
      • Kapiti research station
      • Mazingira centre
      • One health centre
      • Poultry facility
      • The CGIAR AMR hub
      • Tick unit
      • Bioscience facility
      • Genomics platform
      • ILRI-Hyderabad livestock research facilities
  • Where we work
    • Eastern and southern africa
      • Kenya
      • Ethiopia
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
      • Zimbabwe
      • Burundi
    • West Africa
      • Burkina Faso
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
    • Asia
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Vietnam
    • Explore our work in the countries
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events
    • ILRI in the media
  • Knowledge
    • Outputs
      • Publications
      • Journal articles
      • Presentations
      • Infographics
      • Browse archive
    • Data
      • Datasets
      • Apps
    • Multimedia
      • Videos
      • Podcasts
      • Stories
  • Join Us
    • Careers
    • Subscribe
International Livestock Research Institute
  • Overview
  • People
  • Supporters
  • Themes
    • Health
    • Livestock, Genetics, Nutrition, and Feed Resources
    • People, Policies, and Institutions
    • Livestock, Climate, and Environment
    • Innovations scaling and impact
  • Projects
  • Capacity development
  • Research support
    • Research compliance
    • Communication and knowledge management
    • Intellectual property and legal unit
    • Data and research methods
  • ILRI Hubs
    • BecA-ILRI Hub
    • Livestock and climate solutions hub
  • Facilities
    • Centre for tropical livestock genetics and health
    • ILRI Genebank
    • Kapiti research station
    • Mazingira centre
    • One health centre
    • Poultry facility
    • The CGIAR AMR hub
    • Tick unit
    • Bioscience facility
    • Genomics platform
    • ILRI-Hyderabad livestock research facilities
Mazingira centre

ACTIVE Jan 2028

Africa–Asia Bioscience Challenge Fund (AABCF)- Building the next generation of bioscience leaders

Camels drinking at a water pan in Wajir County, Kenya

ACTIVE Feb 2028

Emerging public health threats in Africa’s drylands

  • Eastern and southern africa
    • Kenya
    • Ethiopia
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Zimbabwe
    • Burundi
  • West Africa
    • Burkina Faso
    • Mali
    • Nigeria
    • Senegal
  • Asia
    • India
    • Nepal
    • Vietnam
  • Explore our work in the countries
  • News
  • Events
  • ILRI in the media
rangelands_web.pdf.jpg
2026

Rangelands Rising: Investing in Sustainable Management and Restoration

  • Wane, Abdrahmane
two_pager_ strategy.pdf.jpg
2024

Unlocking sustainable livestock’s potential through research for better lives and a better planet: ILRI Corporate Strategy 2024–2030

  • International Livestock Research Institute
  • Outputs
    • Publications
    • Journal articles
    • Presentations
    • Infographics
    • Browse archive
  • Data
    • Datasets
    • Apps
  • Multimedia
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • Stories
  • Careers
  • Subscribe

Main navigation

  • About
    • Overview
    • People
    • Supporters
  • Research
    • Themes
      • Health
      • Livestock, Genetics, Nutrition, and Feed Resources
      • People, Policies, and Institutions
      • Livestock, Climate, and Environment
      • Innovations scaling and impact
    • Projects
    • Capacity development
    • Research support
      • Research compliance
      • Communication and knowledge management
      • Intellectual property and legal unit
      • Data and research methods
    • ILRI Hubs
      • BecA-ILRI Hub
      • Livestock and climate solutions hub
    • Facilities
      • Centre for tropical livestock genetics and health
      • ILRI Genebank
      • Kapiti research station
      • Mazingira centre
      • One health centre
      • Poultry facility
      • The CGIAR AMR hub
      • Tick unit
      • Bioscience facility
      • Genomics platform
      • ILRI-Hyderabad livestock research facilities
  • Where we work
    • Eastern and southern africa
      • Kenya
      • Ethiopia
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
      • Zimbabwe
      • Burundi
    • West Africa
      • Burkina Faso
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
    • Asia
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Vietnam
    • Explore our work in the countries
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events
    • ILRI in the media
  • Knowledge
    • Outputs
      • Publications
      • Journal articles
      • Presentations
      • Infographics
      • Browse archive
    • Data
      • Datasets
      • Apps
    • Multimedia
      • Videos
      • Podcasts
      • Stories
  • Join Us
    • Careers
    • Subscribe

Secondary navigation

  • Search
  • Microsites
  1. Home
  2. Knowledge
  3. Publications

Sustainable use and genetic improvement

Journal Article
Published on January 2008

Citation

Nimbkar, C., Gibson J., Okeyo, A.M., Boettcher P. and Soelkner J. 2008. Sustainable use and genetic improvement. Animal Genetic Resources Information Bulletin (42): 49-65

Authors

  • Nimbkar, C.
  • animal breeding
  • biodiversity
  • genetics
  • livestock
  • indigenous breeds
AGR_42_49-69.pdf.jpg

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/10568/3237

Accessibility

Open Access

Related Publications

ILRI publication cover
2026

Population genomics of Nigerian goat breeds and neighbouring populations in the West Africa–Cameroon transboundary livestock corridor

  • Akinsola, O.M.
ILRI publication cover
2026

Economic Value Analysis and Development of Economic Weights for Selection Index Construction in Indigenous Chicken Genetic

  • Getachew, E.
ILRI publication cover
2026

Turning dairy farming into a business opportunity

  • Onyango, Polycarp Otieno
Sci Data.png
2026

A chromosome-level genome assembly of the South African indigenous, Kolbroek pig, Sus scrofa domesticus

  • Smith, R.M.
Factors influencing adoption of climate smart livestock practices in eastern Africa - insights from Uganda.pdf.jpg
2026

Factors influencing adoption of climate-smart livestock practices in eastern Africa: insights from Uganda

  • Mugumya, R.
Climate_smart_cattle_Breeding.pdf.jpg
2026

Climate-smart cattle: Breeding for lower methane and higher productivity

  • International Livestock Research Institute

ILRI Kenya

PO Box 30709
Nairobi 00100, Kenya
  • +254-20 422 3000
  • +254-20 422 3001
  • ILRI-Kenya@cgiar.org

ILRI Ethiopia

PO Box 5689
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • +251-11 617 2000
  • +251-11 617 2001
  • ILRI-Ethiopia@cgiar.org

Get Involved

  • Subscribe to our Newsletter
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Slideshare
  • Flickr
  • Youtube
  • Linkedin
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram

We would like to thank all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.

  • Copyright and permissions
  • © 2026 International Livestock Research Institute
  • Creative commons