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ILRI News on sheep

27 Sep 2019

‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is delighted to announce that a session devoted to drylands and rangelands is being incorporated in the agenda of a big event of the estimable Global Landscapes Forum, which is taking place all day tomorrow, in New York City. The theme of this...

ILRI News

08 Aug 2019

Susan MacMillan

#ThrowbackThursday Video—Misku and Gebremichael’s stories

Don’t miss these two superb and VERY short videos describing how new ideas in animal husbandry are transforming Ethiopian incomes, animal pastures and livestock livelihoods. Misku’s Story A 40-year old woman from central-western Ethiopia transforms her family’s life through...

ILRI clippings

31 Jul 2019

Susan MacMillan

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Kenya’s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country’s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new survey...

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Publications on sheep

Journal Article

Published2019

Positive association between Brucella spp. seroprevalences in livestock and humans from a cross-sectional study in Garissa and Tana River Counties, Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Assessment of small ruminant welfare in Ethiopia–An abattoir-based study

Journal Article

Published2019

Risk factors for reproductive disorders and major infectious causes of abortion in sheep in the highlands of Ethiopia

Manual

Published2019

Guidelines for setting up community-based small ruminants breeding programs: Second edition

Journal Article

Published2019

Genetic diversity and matrilineal genetic origin of fat-rumped sheep in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Transfer of total phenols from a grapeseed-supplemented diet to dairy sheep and goat milk, and effects on performance and milk quality

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ILRI Projects on sheep

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program

FTF-MLTS strives to reduce the productivity gaps and expand the volume and value of ruminant livestock produced and marketed by 61,000 households in 31 FTF focus communes in Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu. To achieve this, FTF-MLTS is promoting the wide-scale dissemination of productivity enhancing...