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ILRI News on small ruminants

30 Sep 2019

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

A private service provider supported by ILRI AVCD LC, provides high quality veterinary inputs and services closer to the farmers in the ASALs (Photo credit: ILRI/ Haret Hambe). Livestock diseases and vectors are among the top constraints limiting productivity and development of the livestock...

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Publications on small ruminants

Journal Article

Published2020

Genetic diversity, population structure and runs of homozygosity in Ethiopian short fat-tailed and Awassi sheep breeds using genome-wide 50k SNP markers

Journal Article

Published2019

Reproduction and survival analysis of Boer and their crosses with Central Highland goats in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2020

Contribution of small ruminants to food security for Ethiopian smallholder farmers

Journal Article

Published2019

Variation in grain yield, fodder quality and animal intake in two dual purpose legume crops: Mungbean and vegetable soybean grown in semi-arid tropical India

Conference Paper

Published2019

Farmer preferred attributes in selective breeding do not necessarily result in genetic gain for growth traits: The case of coat color

Conference Paper

Published2019

Nutritional value of peanut haulm: effects on digestibility and on growth performance of sheep fed peanut hay or silage

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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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small ruminants

ILRI News on small ruminants

The private sector can deliver veterinary vaccines in Kenya

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

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

Publications on small ruminants

Genetic diversity, population structure and runs of homozygosity in Ethiopian short fat-tailed and Awassi sheep breeds using genome-wide 50k SNP markers

Reproduction and survival analysis of Boer and their crosses with Central Highland goats in Ethiopia

Contribution of small ruminants to food security for Ethiopian smallholder farmers

Variation in grain yield, fodder quality and animal intake in two dual purpose legume crops: Mungbean and vegetable soybean grown in semi-arid tropical India

Farmer preferred attributes in selective breeding do not necessarily result in genetic gain for growth traits: The case of coat color

Nutritional value of peanut haulm: effects on digestibility and on growth performance of sheep fed peanut hay or silage

ILRI Projects on small ruminants

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

TAAT livestock compact

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program