African Goat Improvement Network; Community based breeding programs in Malawi and Uganda
Abstract
The project aims to establish community based goat breeding programs in Malawi and Uganda, as part of the African Goat Improvement Network, a Feed the Future project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) and funded by USAID. Goat-keepers in a small number of villages in two regions of each country are involved in participatory exercises as to find their breeding objectices and simple animal recording and selection procedures are established. Mobile recording strategies using mobile phones and tablets are tested. Low cost genotyping of animals for parentage verification and for finding genes related to growth and fertility of animals is also performed. The target of the project is to establish functional recording infrastructure that will help farmers and local insitutions to sucessfully run goat breeding programs after the end of the project.
keywords breeding program goat performance testing molecular markers
Publikationen
Distribution of copy number variants in the genomes of East African goat breeds
Autoren: Nandolo, W., Lamuno, D., Banda, L.J., Gondwe, T.N., Mulindwa, H.A., Nakimbugwe, H.N., Mészáros, G., Wurzinger, M., Rosen, B.D., Woodward-Greene, M.J., van Tassell, C.P., Sölkner, J. Jahr: 2018
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Evaluation framework of community-based livestock breeding programs, Livestock Research for Rural Development
Autoren: Lamuno, D; Sölkner, J; Mészáros, G; Nakimbugwe, H; Mulindwa, H; Nandolo, W; Gondwe, T; Van Tassel, C; Gutierrez, G; Mueller, J P; Wurzinger, M Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
Socio-economic Contribution of Indigenous Goats to Smallholders in Low Input Crop-livestock Production System in Malawi
Autoren: Kaumbata, W; Banda, L; Mészáros, G; Gondwe, T; Woodward-Greene, M.J; Rosen, B; van Tassel, C; Sölkner, J; Wurzinger, M. Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Johann Sölkner
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Johann Sölkner
johann.soelkner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93201, 93231
Project Leader
01.11.2014 - 31.03.2020
Gabor Meszaros
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gabor Meszaros
gabor.meszaros@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93213
Project Staff
01.11.2014 - 31.03.2020
Maria Wurzinger
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Wurzinger
maria.wurzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93001, 93220, 93414
Project Staff
01.11.2014 - 31.03.2020
BOKU partners
External partners
Association for strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Emmanuel Zziw
partner
National Agricultural Research Organization
Henry Mulindwa
partner
National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Base
Helen Nakimbugwe
partner
USDA, Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD_x000D_ _x000D_
Tad Sonstegard
partner
Lilongwe University of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences
Timothy Gondwe
partner