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ILRI News on sheep

07 Aug 2020

Laughter, the universal language

Author Zoë Campbell at a community meeting with Fulani pastoralists in Senegal (photo credit: Guy Ilboudo, ILRI-Burkina Faso). Written by ILRI gender and socioeconomic researcher Zoë Campbell. If there were no language barriers, what would research be like, I wonder? I’m a gender researcher working...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI News

16 Dec 2019

Animal health experts on the ‘goat plague’ known as PPR chart ways forward for better controlling a widespread disease harming the world’s small-scale sheep and goats producers

A boy feeding goats during the SLP crop residues project field trip to Ginchi in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Bruno Gerard). Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague’, is a viral disease related to rinderpest of sheep as well as goats. This contagious transboundary disease hurts...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

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Publications on sheep

Journal Article

Published2020

Breeding practices and trait preferences of smallholder farmers for indigenous sheep in the northwest highlands of Ethiopia: Inputs to design a breeding program

Poster

Published2020

Sheep Fattening in Ethiopia opens up exciting economic opportunities for rural youth, including young women

Journal Article

Published2020

Genome wide insights of Ethiopian indigenous sheep populations reveal the population structure related to tail morphology and phylogeography

Journal Article

Published2020

Risk factors for Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii infection among small ruminants in Eastern India

Report

Published2020

Amélioration de la production des petits ruminants dans les systèmes mixtes de cultures et d’élevage à travers des interventions sanito-alimentaires au sud du Mali

Presentation

Published2019

Understanding the importance of the social and economic impact of PPR

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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...

International Livestock Research Institute

Tags: sheep

ILRI News on sheep

Laughter, the universal language

Animal health experts on the ‘goat plague’ known as PPR chart ways forward for better controlling a widespread disease harming the world’s small-scale sheep and goats producers

In Mali, an old vaccine can be a new way to fight poverty

Publications on sheep

Breeding practices and trait preferences of smallholder farmers for indigenous sheep in the northwest highlands of Ethiopia: Inputs to design a breeding program

Sheep Fattening in Ethiopia opens up exciting economic opportunities for rural youth, including young women

Genome wide insights of Ethiopian indigenous sheep populations reveal the population structure related to tail morphology and phylogeography

Risk factors for Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii infection among small ruminants in Eastern India

Amélioration de la production des petits ruminants dans les systèmes mixtes de cultures et d’élevage à travers des interventions sanito-alimentaires au sud du Mali

Understanding the importance of the social and economic impact of PPR

ILRI Projects on sheep

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program