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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2010Ethiopia
The pastoral areas of Ethiopia are witnessing radical change in terms of both increasingly restricted mobility and access to vital resources. A cause and consequence of such constraints has been a move toward sedentarised forms of livestock and agricultural production. This is occurring in a political and socioeconomic vacuum, in which the customary institutions responsible for resource allocation and access to land are becoming weaker, and where the Ethiopian government has yet to develop a clear policy or strategy for resource distribution and tenure security in pastoral areas.
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Library ResourceOctober, 2010Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceApril, 2010Kenya, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceMultimediaJanuary, 2010Kenya, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceMultimediaJune, 2010Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Kenya, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceJuly, 2010Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2010Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
The aim of this thesis was to identify breeding objectives of smallholder and pastoral sheep keepers in Ethiopia (Afar, Bonga, Horro and Menz areas) and to design appropriate community-based breeding plans for genetic improvement of four indigenous sheep breeds. Information on genetics of adaptation in farm animals was reviewed. Two live animals ranking experiments approaches, own-flock and groupanimal ranking, were used to identify sheep breeding objectives. In own-flock ranking, owners paid more attention to production and reproduction performances and behavioral traits (e.g.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksApril, 2010Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
An exploratory survey was undertaken to understand sheep production system, breeding practices and selection criteria for Ethiopian Menz and Afar sheep breeds in their home tract as a step towards developing sustainable sheep breeding strategies. The mean sheep flock size was 31.6 in Menz and 23.0 in Afar area. Half of the pastoralists (Afar) and one-fifth of smallholder farmers (Menz) do not have a breeding ram. Mating was predominantly uncontrolled. Higher chance of mixing sheep flocks was reported in most of the seasons.
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