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ILRI News on animal breeding

18 Jun 2019

Better breeds for more milk: African dairy genetics gains bulls and cows exhibition

Role of African Dairy Genetics Gains platform (Artwork/ILRI: Eric Ouma, Ekta Patel) Today, thirty-five farmers and over fifty representatives from the Tanzanian government including Hon. Luhaga Mpina, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Tanzania, and Dr. Eligy Mussa Shirima, Director General of...

ILRI News

12 Jun 2019

Ekta Patel

Africa’s animal genetic resources – the wealth within

Ankole cattle from southwestern Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African ministers, senior policymakers and other dignitaries, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch new and notable products that improve...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

10 May 2019

Ewen Le Borgne

Building the business case for smallholder poultry development (part 2): Imagining ‘ACGG+’

In the course of 2018, the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project team held an important meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (May 23-24) in order to capture the ‘business case’ for smallholder poultry development at large, building upon key lessons from ACGG so far, and looking into options for a...

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Publications on animal breeding

Journal Article

Published2019

Genome-wide diversity and demographic dynamics of Cameroon goats and their divergence from east African, north African, and Asian conspecifics

Manual

Published2019

Guidelines for setting up community-based small ruminants breeding programs: Second edition

Journal Article

Published2019

Genetic and economic evaluation of alternative breeding scenarios for community based productivity improvements of three indigenous goat breeds in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Genetic diversity of 10 indigenous chicken ecotypes from Southern Highlands of Tanzania based on Major Histocompatibility Complex-linked microsatellite LEI0258 marker typing

Journal Article

Published2019

Genetic diversity and matrilineal genetic origin of fat-rumped sheep in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Reproductive performance indicators of dairy cattle in selected small-scale dairy farms in semi-arid Eastern Kenya

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ILRI Projects on animal breeding

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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

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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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Tags: animal breeding

ILRI News on animal breeding

Better breeds for more milk: ​African dairy genetics gains bulls and cows exhibition

Africa’s animal genetic resources – the wealth within

Building the business case for smallholder poultry development (part 2): Imagining ‘ACGG+’

Publications on animal breeding

Genome-wide diversity and demographic dynamics of Cameroon goats and their divergence from east African, north African, and Asian conspecifics

Guidelines for setting up community-based small ruminants breeding programs: Second edition

Genetic and economic evaluation of alternative breeding scenarios for community based productivity improvements of three indigenous goat breeds in Ethiopia

Genetic diversity of 10 indigenous chicken ecotypes from Southern Highlands of Tanzania based on Major Histocompatibility Complex-linked microsatellite LEI0258 marker typing

Genetic diversity and matrilineal genetic origin of fat-rumped sheep in Ethiopia

Reproductive performance indicators of dairy cattle in selected small-scale dairy farms in semi-arid Eastern Kenya

ILRI Projects on animal breeding

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

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

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

Better breeds for more milk: African dairy genetics gains bulls and cows exhibition