The urgent need to improve livestock productivity in sub.Saharan Africa in order to keep pace with expected increases in demand for meat and milk is very topical. Breed improvement provides key entry points for increasing productivity in cattle populations. However, there are tendencies for genet...
Ouma, Emily A.
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Abdulai, A.
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Drucker, A.G.
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Obare, G.A.
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[Assessment of farmer preferences for cattle traits in smallholder cattle production systems of Kenya and Ethiopia]
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Assessment of farmer preferences for cattle traits in smallholder cattle production systems of Kenya and Ethiopia
This paper investigates preferences for cattle traits among a pastoral community in a trypanosomosis prevalent area in Kenya. Choice experiments and mixed logit models are employed to estimate economic values of preferred traits which could be introduced through systematic breeding in breed impro...
Ouma, Emily A.
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Abdulai, A.
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Drucker, A.G.
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[Pastoralists preferences for cattle traits: Letting them be heard]
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Pastoralists preferences for cattle traits: Letting them be heard
Methods for biodiversity conservation are reported and applied to 49 African cattle breeds (26
taurine/sanga and 23 zebu/zenga (ZZ) breeds). It was estimated that about half of the breeds and
half of today’s genetic diversity between breeds would be lost within 50 years. Based on a survey
and a l...
Reist-Marti, S.B.
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Abdulai, A.
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Simianer, H.
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[Analysis of methods for efficient biodiversity conservation with focus on African cattle breeds]
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Analysis of methods for efficient biodiversity conservation with focus on African cattle breeds