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Policies and Design Processes to Enable Transformation

  • Pereira, Laura
  • Vrettos, Chris
  • Cramer, Laura
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  • Muiderman, Karlijn
  • Schapendonk, Frans
  • Stringer, Lindsay C.
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  • Vervoort, Joost
  • Wamukoya, George
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Opportunities to quantify resilience of dairy cattle to environmental stressors in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Oloo, Richard Dooso
  • Ekine-Dzivenu, Chinyere C.
  • Ojango, Julie M.K.
  • Gebreyohanes, Gebregziabher
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Improved sorghum and pearl millet forage cultivars for intensifying dairy systems

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FromJune 2016 toNovember 2017
  • animal feeding
  • crop-livestock
  • dairying
  • feeds
  • intensification

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OPEC Fund for International Development

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Assessing the challenges hindering livestock productivity, fodder availability and use in Ward 16 of Mutoko District, Zimbabwe

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Quality Assessment of Multicut Forage Sorghum (COFS-29) in Karimnagar District Telangana

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The influence of multilevel innovation platforms on continuing utilization of smallholders’ livestock feeding practices

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Growth performance, survivability and profitability of improved smallholder chicken genetics in Nigeria: A COVID-19 intervention study

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