This document summarizes research being conducted by the International Livestock Research Institute to improve small ruminant productivity in Ethiopia. The research uses participatory methods to understand farmers' perspectives on disease constraints. It also conducts sero-surveys and literature reviews to identify key diseases and address knowledge gaps. The goal is to develop control programs, vaccines, diagnostic tools and business models to improve animal health services and tackle diseases such as contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, peste des petits ruminants, brucellosis and parasites affecting small ruminants.

1. Animal health research to improve small ruminant productivity in
Ethiopia
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Identifying constraints
Participatory methods
Bring in the view of
farmers on disease
constraints and their
production related effects
Sero-surveys
Address knowledge gaps in
literature and validate
findings of participatory
research using the latest
diagnostic tools
Literature review
Systematic literature review
with meta-analysis to derive
pooled prevalence estimates
and identify regional/
seasonal differences
Field research Discovery research
Predictive models
Assess the impact and risk
of diseases in changing
production systems
(intensification, climate
change)
• Local, national or regional disease control programs
• Herd health approach incorporating health, husbandry,
and animal welfare issues
• Gender-responsive interventions
• Rational use of antimicrobials
• Vaccine development: CCPP, PPR, sheep and goat
pox, RVF
• Point of care diagnostic tools: CCPP
• Molecular epidemiology
Improve access to products and services
• Testing different business models for animal health
service delivery
• Capacity building interventions at different levels
(farmers, community animal health workers, animal
health assistants, veterinarians, policymakers)
• Technology transfer of developed vaccines and
diagnostic tools
Disease constraints
Respiratory diseases
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
Peste des petits ruminants
Pasteurellosis
Reproductive diseases
Brucellosis
Clamydiosis
Toxoplasmosis
Parasites
Coenurosis
Gastro-intestinal parasites
Ecto-parasites
Barbara Wieland
b.wieland@cgiar.org