designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in...
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Presented by Aynalem Haile at the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU Project workshop on Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, October 29, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia
Presented by Aynalem Haile at the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU project workshop on Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, October 29, 2010.
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Community based breeding
• Centralized within-breed
selection and
crossbreeding programs
have failed
• New thinking – involving
local communities and
institutions in the design,
implementation and
ownership of breeding
strategies
• Community-based
breeding
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Goals
Improved productivity and income of sheep owners by providing access to improved animals that respond to improved feeding and management, targeting specific market opportunities
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The project sites
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The sheep breeds
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How did we start?
• Planning workshop
• Criteria for community selection
• Project team structure
• Official launching and announcement of the
project at district level
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Description of the production
system
Assessing market access
Impactassessment
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Designing community-based breeding
Assessing traditional
institutions and policies
Definition of breeding goals
Developingbreeding strategy
Implementing breeding strategy
Evaluationof results
Developingguidelines
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Description of production systems
Survey/ measurements/observation
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Study on constraints to market
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Definition of breeding goals
A. Own-flock ranking based on farmer’s choice
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B. Ranking of groups of live animals
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Brown Black
C. Hypothetical choice experiment
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Workshop to study community breeding practices
• Current animal management practices
• Envisaged animal management practices
• Social network analysis
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Modeling alternative breeding plans
• ZPLAN (18 alternatives produced)
• Four alternatives were presented
– Varied based on the proportion of rams
selected (10 and 15%) and length of
use of rams (2 and 3 years)
• Color and tail type were preferred and
considered
• Three traits for each breed were identified
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Trait preferences
Menz Horro Bonga Afar
Option 10% intensity
2 years ram use
10% intensity
2 years RU
10% intensty
2 years RU
10% intensty
3 years RU
Traits Fleece weight
Growth Lamb
survival
Growth Twining rateLamb
survival
GrowthTwining
rateLS
Milk pdnGrowthLS
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Workshop with community to choose among the alternatives
• Present the alternatives
• Decide on selection
approaches
• Discuss ram exchange
schemes
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Implementation of the preferred option
• Animal identification
• Development of data recording format
• Data collection- enumerator supported by
community
• Selection of breeding rams- three months and
year
• Value addition- not selected rams
• Animal show and award
• Purchase of selected ram lambs by way of
availing revolving fund- Revert negative selection
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Selection of breeding rams
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Animal Show and Award
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Outputs/impacts
• Functional breeding programs
• Awareness creation
• Health and feed interventions
• Market linkages
• Publications
• Graduate students
• Capacity building at different levels
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General conclusions
• Community involvement is crucial for success
• At critical stage- need for support
• Researcher’s should act as catalysts and facilitators
providing options to farmers to make decisions
based on scientific evidence
• For implementation it is essential to have all
stakeholders involved right from the start: this
increases commitment and therefore efficiency and
sustainability
• Genetic improvement need to be supported by other
interventions
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