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ILRI News on animal breeding

03 Nov 2022

SAPLING initiative’s stakeholder consultation proposes priority activities for northwest Vietnam

Livestock is an essential income source for many small-scale farmers in Northwest Vietnam, who may own only a few animals (photo credit: ILRI) In the local Thai dialect in Vietnam’s Northwest Region ‘Chan-henh’ means ‘good and better’. It is also the short name of the CGIAR Initiative on...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

ILRI News

02 Nov 2022

Government and partners celebrate achievements in increasing dairy productivity in Burundi

Partners of the regional integrated agricultural development in the great lakes (PRDAIGL) project have held a joint end-of-project workshop to review its contributions to Burundi’s dairy sector in the last two years. Attendees of the 2–3 November forum in Bujumbura were drawn from the Ministry of...

Saba ErmyasCommunications Officer

ILRI News

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

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Publications on animal breeding

Journal Article

Published2022

From a documented past of the Jersey breed in Africa to a profit index linked future

Presentation

Published2022

The mosaic genome of African cattle: A unique adaptive genetic resource

Journal Item

Published2022

Missing puzzle piece for the origins of domestic chickens

Journal Article

Published2022

Ecological niche modelling as a tool to identify candidate indigenous chicken ecotypes of Tigray (Ethiopia)

Journal Article

Published2022

Reproductive and productive performance of Doyogena sheep managed under a community-based breeding program in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2022

Optical mapping compendium of structural variants across global cattle breeds

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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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