Skip to main content
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Slideshare
  • Flickr
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram

International Livestock Research Institute

Menu
  • People
  • Outcomes
  • Events
  • Supporters
  • Jobs
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Research
    • Research
      • Research themes
        • Environment
        • Food
        • Gender
        • Health
        • Prosperity
      • Research programs
        • Animal and human health
        • Feed and forage development
        • Livestock genetics
        • Policies, institutions and livelihoods
        • Sustainable livestock systems
        • Impact at scale
        • BecA-ILRI Hub
      • CGIAR Research Programs
      • Capacity Development
      • Research Compliance
      • Research Support
      • Research 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
      • Projects
  • Where we work
    • Where we work
      • Eastern and Southern Africa
        • Kenya
        • Ethiopia
        • Tanzania
        • Uganda
        • Zimbabwe
      • West Africa
        • Burkina-faso
        • Mali
        • Nigeria
        • Senegal
      • South Asia
        • India
        • Pakistan
      • East and Southeast Asia
        • China
        • Vietnam
  • Livestock Matters
    • Livestock Matters
      • News
      • Multimedia
      • ILRI Clippings
      • ILRI in the Media
  • Publications
  • Initiatives
    • Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health
    • CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
    • CGIAR Gender Platform
    • CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
    • Rangelands initatives global
    • Why Livestock Matter
  1. Home
  2. Publications
  3. Synthesis report for characterization of communal grasslands in Menz and Abergele in Ethiopia

Synthesis report for characterization of communal grasslands in Menz and Abergele in Ethiopia

Published

2020

Status

Open Access

Language

en

Countries

  • Ethiopia

ILRI Programs

  • Sustainable livestock systems
Report
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109721

Citation

Eba, B. and Sircely, J. 2020. Synthesis report for characterization of communal grasslands in Menz and Abergele in Ethiopia. ILRI Project Report. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

Tags

  • animal feeding
  • crop-livestock
  • feeds
  • livestock
  • NRM
  • pastoralism
  • rangelands
Download PDF

Author(s)

  • Eba, Bedasa
  • Sircely, Jason A.

Related publications

Journal Article
Published2021

Population structure, inbreeding and admixture in local cattle populations managed by community‐based breeding programs in Burkina Faso

  • Animal breeding
  • breeds
  • cattle
  • genetics
  • livestock
  • indigenous breeds
Journal Article
Published2021

Knowledge, attitude, and practices to zoonotic disease risks from livestock birth products among smallholder communities in Ethiopia

  • livestock
  • zoonotic diseases
Journal Article
Published2021

Spatial clustering of livestock anthrax events associated with agro-ecological zones in Kenya, 1957-2017

  • animal diseases
  • livestock
  • zoonotic diseases
more publications

Related News

ILRI News
ILRI News
26 Feb 2021

New ILRI podcast series 'The Boma' launched

Today we are launching The Boma , a new international podcast about livestock across the developing world! The Boma is named after the Swahili word for the traditional circular thorn bush enclosures of East Africa built to hold livestock and keep them safe from predators. Like a boma, each episode...

  • Tim Offei-AddoPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor
  • animal feeding
  • crop residues
  • feeds
ILRI News
26 Nov 2020

From framework to implementation: ILRI Impact at Scale program publishes first scaling readiness analysis on livestock innovations

The Impact at Scale (I@S) program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has published the ‘ Scaling Readiness report and scaling plan for training and certification approach for small-scale pig producers in Uganda. ’ This is the first of a series of Scaling Readiness reports and...

  • Saba ErmyasCommunications Officer
  • agriculture
  • animal feeding
  • capacity strengthening
  • feeds
  • fodder
  • gender
  • livestock
  • pigs
  • scaling
  • value chains
ILRI News
ILRI News
03 Nov 2020

Updated CGIAR feed database provides best-cost livestock feed rations for sub-Saharan Africa

Fifty three new accessions of Napier grass received at Forage Genebank, ILRI, Addis Ababa from EMBRAPA, Br azil (photo credit: ILRI) An updated CGIAR livestock feeds database for sub-Saharan Africa is now available. Containing the nutritive values of over 44,000 forage and fodder samples, the...

  • Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences
  • agriculture
  • animal feeding
  • feeds
  • fodder
  • forages

Related Projects

Active
Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock 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...

  • agriculture
  • animal health
  • animal diseases
  • disease control
  • disease
  • health
  • gender
  • Climate-smartLivestock
  • climate change
  • scaling
  • markets
  • animal feeding
  • feeds
  • fodder
Completed
Apr 2020Mar 2022

Overcoming forage challenges in Africa: exploring sequence diversity in Napier grass to fast-track breeding projects at national level

In 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 feeding
  • livestock
  • climate change
Completed
Jun 2016Nov 2017

Improved sorghum and pearl millet forage cultivars for intensifying dairy systems

  • animal feeding
  • crop-livestock
  • dairying
  • feeds
  • intensification
better lives through livestock

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

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Slideshare
  • Flickr
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram

Stay updated

  • news.ilri.org
  • clippings.ilri.org
  • livestock.cgiar.org

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

  • Copyright and permissions
  • © 2021 International Livestock Research Institute
  • Creative commons