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ILRI News on animal breeding

04 Aug 2022

The Africa Dairy Genetics Gains team trains service providers and farmers on breeding practices and provides data capture tools

The Africa Dairy Genetics Gain (ADDG) program held a seven-day training to teach farmers and animal health service providers cattle estrous synchronization, fixed time artificial insemination and data collection. The training held from 20 June – 1 July 2022 was organized by the ADGG team comprising...

Mwihaki MundiaCommunications Officer - BecA

ILRI Asia

06 May 2022

New One CGIAR initiative to transform livestock productivity, nutrition and gender inclusion in northwest Vietnam

A two-day workshop, 20-21 April 2022, kicked off the One CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion ( SAPLING ) in Son La Province, Northwest Vietnam. The workshop brought together 80 key stakeholders from the province including local...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

ILRI Asia

21 Apr 2022

Thông cáo báo chí: Khởi động sáng kiến mới dựa vào chăn nuôi giúp cải thiện sinh kế, dinh dưỡng và hòa nhập giới ở vùng cao Tây Bắc

Trong hai ngày 20-21 tháng 04 năm 2022 đã diễn ra hội thảo khởi động sáng kiến mới của One CGIAR ‘Sáng kiến năng suất chăn nuôi bền vững vì sinh kế, dinh dưỡng và hòa nhập giới’ (gọi tắt là SAPLING ) tại tỉnh Sơn La. Hội thảo có sự tham dự của khoảng 80 đại biểu, là đại diện của chính quyền địa...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

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Publications on animal breeding

Journal Article

Published2022

Genetic and phenotypic parameters for growth and lamb survival traits of Farta and their crosses with Washera sheep in northwest Ethiopia: Inputs to design of breeding programs

Presentation

Published2022

Genetics and genomic approaches for sustainable dairy cattle improvement in smallholder dairy systems

Presentation

Published2022

Feasibility of joint genomic evaluations for smallholder dairy data in Tanzania and Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2022

Genetic structure of Arabian Peninsula dromedary camels revealed three geographic groups

Journal Article

Published2022

Comparative efficiency for in vitro transfection of goat undifferentiated spermatogonia using lipofectamine reagents and electroporation

Journal Article

Published2022

Galbase: A comprehensive repository for integrating chicken multi-omics data

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ILRI Projects on animal breeding

Improving village chicken protection to elevate the livelihoods of poor people in Ethiopia

Chickens are the only affordable livestock for the poor and improving their production level can improve the livelihood of the village farmers, and thus serve as a stepping stone out of extreme poverty. Production levels of indigenous chicken can be improved by organised breeding A participatory...

A system to cost effectively create a continuous supply of F1 heifer via sexed embryos

Many of Heifer Project International’s projects are centred on the provision of improved animals to and training of low income families. In relation to dairy cattle in a number of sub-Saharan African countries, HPI has indicated that they are unable to meet the demand for high quality animals from...

animal breeding

Jan 2011Dec 2013

Comparative genome sequence analysis to identify disease and traits related genes under different selection pressures during chicken domestication

Objectives: • To identify candidate genes associated with disease resistance and economic traits through an analysis of signature of selection (SOS) between Asian and African lineage poultry. • To conduct statistical modeling of marker-assisted gene introgression (MAI) based on disease...

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