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ILRI News on animal breeding

14 Apr 2020

ILRI develops framework for integrating gender in livestock genetic improvement programs

Woman herding goats in Nagar Village, Tonk District, Rajasthan, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Livestock genetic improvement programs help farmers to enhance their productivity through improved breeds. But resear ch shows that men and women farmers use and interact with livestock in...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

10 Apr 2020

Community-based sheep breeding programs in Ethiopia generate genetic gains and socioeconomic benefits

Grazing sheep, Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRIZerihun Sewunet) Community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) for small ruminants have been suggested as alternatives to centralised, government-controlled breeding schemes which have been implemented in many developing countries. In recent years, with...

Peter BallantynePrincipal Investigator, Communications and Knowledge Management

ILRI News

24 Mar 2020

When did the chicken first cross the road?

There are nine chickens in the world for every human, but the story of how the species emerged from the jungles of Southeast Asia some 8,000 years ago to become the world’s favoured protein source is a complicated one. ‘The success of the chicken has a lot to do with its diversity, and that...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

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Publications on animal breeding

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Published2020

Effects of dietary supplementation of Thymus vulgaris (Lamiaceae) on reproductive parameters in local Kabir rooster of Cameroon

Journal Article

Published2019

Novel and known signals of selection for fat deposition in domestic sheep breeds from Africa and Eurasia

Journal Article

Published2019

Mitochondrial and nuclear multilocus phylogeny of Rhipicephalus ticks from Kenya

Journal Article

Published2020

Community-based sheep breeding programs generated substantial genetic gains and socioeconomic benefits

Journal Article

Published2020

Growth performance of DZ-white and Improved Horro chicken breeds under different agro-ecological zones of Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2020

Genetic diversity and population structure of indigenous chicken in Rwanda using microsatellite markers

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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...

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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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