small ruminants

ILRI News on small ruminants

16 Mar 2020

The private sector can deliver veterinary vaccines in Kenya

On 1 February 2020 the director of veterinary services (DVS), Obadiah Njagi, issued a circular clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the private sector in the delivery of veterinary medicines and vaccines across Kenya in accordance with the existing laws and regulations. For a long time, the...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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

AVCD program blog

30 Sep 2019

Can the private sector deliver livestock vaccines in Kenya? Yes, they can

A private service provider supported by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Accelerated Value Chains Development (AVCD) program’s livestock component, provides high-quality veterinary inputs and services to the farmers in Kenya’s arid areas (photo credit: ILRI/ Haret Hambe)...

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Publications on small ruminants

Journal Article

Published2018

Outcome Mapping as a monitoring and evaluation tool for livestock value chain interventions: The case of imGoats

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

Journal Article

Published2020

Increased number of large non‐atretic follicles and co‐dominance effects account for high litter sizes in Bonga sheep

Journal Article

Published2020

The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures

Journal Article

Published2019

Estimates of genetic parameters and genetic trends for growth, reproduction, milk production and milk composition traits of Awassi sheep

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ILRI Projects on small ruminants

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (FTF-MLTS)

Aims to reduce ruminant livestock productivity gaps and increase the volume and value of ruminant livestock marketed and promoting the expansion of profitable livestock-based enterprises with a business model that stimulates commercial and institutional innovations, linking up producers with input...

Nov 2017Oct 2020

TAAT livestock compact

Livestock supports the livelihood of about 1.3 billion people in developing countries and contributes up to 30 per cent of the agriculture Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly through the provision of meat, milk, eggs, wool and hides and skins. Demand for...

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...

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