An international platform for rapid analysis of livestock feed quality (with nodes in India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Burkina FasoPublished2021StatusOpen AccessLanguageenCountriesBurkina FasoEthiopiaIndiaNigeriaILRI ProgramsFeed and forage developmentOtherhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115109CitationILRI. 2021. An international platform for rapid analysis of livestock feed quality (with nodes in India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Burkina Faso). Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.Tagsanimal feedingfeedslivestockresearch
ThesisPublished2022Diversity and genome-wide association in Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus L.) collections for agronomic and drought-tolerance related traitsagricultureanimal feedingcrop-livestockfeedsfodderforages
ReportPublished2021Urban food markets in Africa – Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach (Pull-Push project): Burkina Faso stakeholders’ workshop reportcapacity strengtheningfood safetyfood securitylivestock
Journal ArticlePublished2022State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major cropsagriculturecropsfeedsfodderforageslivestock
ActiveJan 2020Dec 2023Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...agricultureanimal diseasesanimal feedinganimal healthclimate changedisease controlfeedsfoddergenderhuman healthmarketsscaling
ActiveApr 2020Mar 2022Overcoming forage challenges in Africa: exploring sequence diversity in Napier grass to fast-track breeding projects at national levelIn this project, we propose to capture the maximal range of polymorphisms by whole-genome sequencing of 500 accessions of Napier grass with the project focus on the identification of molecular markers associated with drought tolerance, crude protein content, water soluble carbohydrates, self-...animal feedingclimate changelivestock
CompletedJun 2016Nov 2017Improved sorghum and pearl millet forage cultivars for intensifying dairy systemsanimal feedingcrop-livestockdairyingfeedsintensification