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Proceedings of the workshop to establish guidelines for using swat to assess ecosystem services
Productivity and health of indigenous sheep breeds and crossbreds in central Ethiopian Highlands
Producción de biomasa vegetal epígea e hipógea en las sabanas nativas
Price and performance analysis of indigenous sheep breed marketing in Menz districts of Ethiopia
Sheep have multiple roles in the livelihood of resource poor farmers as source of income, meat, skin, manure, strong wool or long hairy fleece, and as buffer resources during crop failures. These important services and products of the sheep production sub-sector justify comprehensive look into the way sheep are marketed, as the services and products are the quality attributes that characterize sheep as such. Nonetheless, very few studies have been conducted so far to identify the determinants of indigenous sheep prices and performance of the marketing system.
Productivity of Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under trypanosomiasis risk
Evaluates the productivity of grade Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under severe trypanosomiasis risk at Mkwaja ranch, Tanzania; uses data based on more than 20,000 calving records over the 10-year period from 1973 to 1982; discusses environmental influences on performance traits and links between tsetse population dynamics & cattle; includes comparison of Boran genotypes and its effect on pre-weaning growth characters.
Rainwater Harvesting for Increased Pasture Production
This leaflet describes one method of rainwater harvesting – using hoops. This method is particularly suited to pasture production in dry areas.