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ILRI News on sheep

11 Feb 2021

Strengthening wildlife health capacities and use of One Health can support global efforts to eradicate ‘goat plague’

In Africa, ILRI is implementing the Epidemiology and Control of Peste des petits ruminants (ECO-PPR) research project, with several partners in East and West Africa and in collaboration with French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation organization (CIRAD) and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) to support initiatives towards eradicating PPR.

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI News

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 MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

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 PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

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Publications on sheep

Report

Published2021

Training of trainers in community-based breeding program for small ruminants in pastoral communities of Kenya, October–November 2020: Livestock Genetics Flagship activity report

Presentation

Published2020

Production and delivery of thermotolerant vaccine against peste des petits ruminants in the Sahel: Case of a successful public-private partnership in Mali

Journal Article

Published2021

Calculation of new enteric methane emission factors for small ruminants in western Kenya highlights the heterogeneity of smallholder production systems

Journal Article

Published2021

International Livestock Research Institute

Tags: sheep

ILRI News on sheep

Strengthening wildlife health capacities and use of One Health can support global efforts to eradicate ‘goat plague’

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

Publications on sheep

Training of trainers in community-based breeding program for small ruminants in pastoral communities of Kenya, October–November 2020: Livestock Genetics Flagship activity report

Production and delivery of thermotolerant vaccine against peste des petits ruminants in the Sahel: Case of a successful public-private partnership in Mali

Calculation of new enteric methane emission factors for small ruminants in western Kenya highlights the heterogeneity of smallholder production systems

Diversity of microbes colonizing forages of varying lignocellulose properties in the sheep rumen

Effects of ensiling cassava peels on some fermentation characteristics and growth performance of sheep on-farm

Genomic selection in Livestock