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ILRI News on sheep

05 Dec 2022

Working towards sustainable livestock systems - a focus on three CGIAR initiatives at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum

Sustainable livestock systems are crucial for supporting livelihoods and nutrition in the Global South, but face pressing climate-related challenges. Adapting these systems will ensure that the economic, social and environmental integrity of livestock-rearing communities is preserved. Working...

Madison SpinelliPrinceton in Africa Fellow

ILRI News

17 Jul 2022

A livestock master plan is produced for India's Odisha State

The following is a foreword by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), to a new ILRI report, Odisha Livestock Master Plan 2022/23–2026/27 . 'The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners have, since 2013, provided technical...

Jimmy SmithILRI Emeritus Fellow
Enock ChikavaAgriculture development interim director(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Shri R. Raghu PrasadIFS principal secretary, Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Department(Government of Odisha)

ILRI News

12 Apr 2022

Q fever common in Tana River and Garissa counties: New study reveals

Coxiella burnetii , the bacterium that causes query fever (Q fever) in humans and livestock, is widely spread in Kenya’s Tana River and Garissa counties and it could pose serious economic and human health risks in the region. This is one of the findings of a study by the International Livestock...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Specialist
Daniel Nthiwa(ILRI)

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Publications on sheep

Journal Article

Published2022

Reproductive and productive performance of Doyogena sheep managed under a community-based breeding program in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2022

Population, biomass, and economic value of small ruminants in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2022

Optimization of alternative breeding schemes for the genetic improvement of common Tigray highland sheep in northern Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2022

Environment suitability mapping of livestock: A case study of Ethiopian indigenous sheep and goats

Presentation

Published2022

Longitudinal study of small ruminant zoonoses in Tana River, Kenya

Presentation

Published2022

Economic impact of peste des petits ruminants outbreak and vaccination cost in northwest Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on sheep

Apr 2019Dec 2022

ICAR Project, Animal Disease Economics

Objectives: - Development of an integrated epidemiological-economic framework through participatory system dynamics modelling that can be used to quantify economic and non-economics of animal disease and its control strategies under different scenarios; - Application of the framework to assess the...