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ILRI News on small ruminants

27 Nov 2020

‘Livestock master plan’ launched to transform meat, milk and poultry production in The Gambia

Goats in a West African village (photo credit: ILRI). Farming dominates the economy of The Gambia, a small, narrow West African country (the smallest country in mainland Africa, which is less than 50 km wide at its widest point). Surrounded on three sides by Senegal, the country has an Atlantic...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

05 Nov 2020

India’s Odisha state starts work on a livestock master plan

Rearing goats in Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) . The Indian state of Odisha has officially rolled-out the process of designing a ‘livestock master plan’ (LMP) with the support of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The process started on 22 Oct...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

14 Oct 2020

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Written by Zoë Campbell Contents of the peste des petits ruminants virus antigen rapid test kit [ID Rapid® PPR Antigen, IDVet, France] (photo credit: ILRI/Bryony Anne Jones). In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same is not always true for...

Zoë CampbellPostdoctoral fellow, Gender

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Publications on small ruminants

Report

Published2021

Community-based approach for the control of gastrointestinal parasites under smallholder sheep farming systems

Brief

Published2021

Developing community-based breeding programs to improve productivity of sheep and goats in Turkana, Isiolo and Marsabit counties of Kenya

Report

Published2021

Rapport de l’atelier de formation sur les méthodes et techniques de modélisation participative: Focus sur la méthode SGMB (Spatial Group Model Building)

Report

Published2021

Community conversations on community-based control of gastrointestinal parasites in small ruminants

Journal Article

Published2021

Genome scan for variable genes involved in environmental adaptations of Nubian ibex

Report

Published2020

Initial assessment report of the Gambian livestock sector: A report to the Small Ruminant Production Enhancement Project (SRPEP) by the International Livestock Research Institute in support of The Gambia’s livestock master plan

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small ruminants

ILRI News on small ruminants

‘Livestock master plan’ launched to transform meat, milk and poultry production in The Gambia

India’s Odisha state starts work on a livestock master plan

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Publications on small ruminants

Community-based approach for the control of gastrointestinal parasites under smallholder sheep farming systems

Developing community-based breeding programs to improve productivity of sheep and goats in Turkana, Isiolo and Marsabit counties of Kenya

Rapport de l’atelier de formation sur les méthodes et techniques de modélisation participative: Focus sur la méthode SGMB (Spatial Group Model Building)

Community conversations on community-based control of gastrointestinal parasites in small ruminants

Genome scan for variable genes involved in environmental adaptations of Nubian ibex

Initial assessment report of the Gambian livestock sector: A report to the Small Ruminant Production Enhancement Project (SRPEP) by the International Livestock Research Institute in support of The Gambia’s livestock master plan

ILRI Projects on small ruminants

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR): developing a pan African strategy for disease control