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ILRI News on sheep

08 Aug 2019

#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...

ILRI News

23 Jul 2019

Ekta Patel

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

Woman pastoralist milks her goat (Photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) To launch research activities in support of controlling peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in West Africa, a workshop held last month in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, outlined a roadmap for the implementation of the project at...

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Publications on sheep

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

Presentation

Published2019

Le projet régional d’appui au pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS): Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal et Tchad

Presentation

Published2019

Overview of PPR in West Africa

Brochure

Published2019

Preventing Haemonchosis

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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...