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.
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
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
The project sites
The sheep breeds
How did we start?
• Planning workshop
• Criteria for community selection
• Project team structure
• Official launching and announcement of the
project at district level
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
Description of production systems
Survey/ measurements/observation
Study on constraints to market
Definition of breeding goals
A. Own-flock ranking based on farmer’s choice
B. Ranking of groups of live animals
Brown Black
C. Hypothetical choice experiment
Workshop to study community breeding practices
• Current animal management practices
• Envisaged animal management practices
• Social network analysis
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
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
Workshop with community to choose among the alternatives
• Present the alternatives
• Decide on selection
approaches
• Discuss ram exchange
schemes
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
Selection of breeding rams
Animal Show and Award
Outputs/impacts
• Functional breeding programs
• Awareness creation
• Health and feed interventions
• Market linkages
• Publications
• Graduate students
• Capacity building at different levels
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