Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia

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 Impact assessment Process in designing community-based breeding strategy Designing community-based breeding Assessing traditional institutions and policies Definition of breeding goals Developing breeding strategy Implementing breeding strategy Evaluation of results Developing guidelines

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 Milk pdn Growth LS Growth Twining rate LS Growth Twining rate Lamb survival Fleece weight Growth Lamb survival Traits 10% intensty 3 years RU 10% intensty 2 years RU 10% intensity 2 years RU 10% intensity 2 years ram use Option Afar Bonga Horro Menz

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

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