small ruminants

ILRI News on small ruminants

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

AVCD program blog

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

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Publications on small ruminants

Journal Article

Published2020

Ethiopian indigenous goats offer insights into past and recent demographic dynamics and local adaptation in sub-Saharan African goats

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

Manual

Published2020

Epidémiologie et Contrôle de la Peste des Petits Ruminants (ECo-PPR) : Manuel du chercheur de terrain

Manual

Published2020

Epidemiology and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants (ECo-PPR): Field researcher manual

Manual

Published2020

Epidemiology and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants (ECo-PPR) Study Design and Toolbox: A suite of tools toward understanding epidemiology and socio-economic impact of peste des petits ruminants

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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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