Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review
Despite the large numbers and importance of adapted indigenous sheep and goats in the tropics, information on sustainable conventional breeding programmes for them is scarce and often unavailable. This paper reviews within-breed selection strategies for indigenous small ruminants in the tropics, hig...
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| author | Kosgey, I.S. Baker, R.L. Udo, H.M.J. Arendonk, Johan A.M. van |
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| description | Despite the large numbers and importance of adapted indigenous sheep and goats in the tropics, information on sustainable conventional breeding programmes for them is scarce and often unavailable. This paper reviews within-breed selection strategies for indigenous small ruminants in the tropics, highlighting aspects determining their success or failure. The aim is to better understand opportunities for genetic improvement of small ruminants by the resource-poor farmers in traditional smallholder and pastoral farming systems. Dismal performance of programmes involving breed substitution of exotics for indigenous breeds and crossbreeding with temperate breeds have stimulated a recent re-orientation of breeding programmes in tropical countries to utilize indigenous breeds, and most programmes are incipient. The success rate of some breeding programmes involving native breeds is encouraging. Definition of comprehensive breeding objectives incorporating the specific, immediate, and long-term social and economic circumstances of the target group as well as ecological constraints was found lacking in some projects that failed. To achieve success, it is necessary to look at the production system holistically, and involve the producer at every stage in the planning and operation of the breeding programme, integrating traditional behaviour and values. |
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| spelling | CGSpace331772023-12-08T19:36:04Z Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review Kosgey, I.S. Baker, R.L. Udo, H.M.J. Arendonk, Johan A.M. van goats [caprinae] sheep [caprinae] animal breeders research projects tropical zones land races breeding methods small farms pastoral society farming systems introduced breeds crossbreeding indigenous knowledge Despite the large numbers and importance of adapted indigenous sheep and goats in the tropics, information on sustainable conventional breeding programmes for them is scarce and often unavailable. This paper reviews within-breed selection strategies for indigenous small ruminants in the tropics, highlighting aspects determining their success or failure. The aim is to better understand opportunities for genetic improvement of small ruminants by the resource-poor farmers in traditional smallholder and pastoral farming systems. Dismal performance of programmes involving breed substitution of exotics for indigenous breeds and crossbreeding with temperate breeds have stimulated a recent re-orientation of breeding programmes in tropical countries to utilize indigenous breeds, and most programmes are incipient. The success rate of some breeding programmes involving native breeds is encouraging. Definition of comprehensive breeding objectives incorporating the specific, immediate, and long-term social and economic circumstances of the target group as well as ecological constraints was found lacking in some projects that failed. To achieve success, it is necessary to look at the production system holistically, and involve the producer at every stage in the planning and operation of the breeding programme, integrating traditional behaviour and values. 2006-01 2013-07-03T05:26:11Z 2013-07-03T05:26:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/33177 en Limited Access Elsevier Small Ruminant Research;61(1): 13-28 |
| spellingShingle | goats [caprinae] sheep [caprinae] animal breeders research projects tropical zones land races breeding methods small farms pastoral society farming systems introduced breeds crossbreeding indigenous knowledge Kosgey, I.S. Baker, R.L. Udo, H.M.J. Arendonk, Johan A.M. van Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title | Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title_full | Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title_fullStr | Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title_short | Successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics: A review |
| title_sort | successes and failures of small ruminant breeding programmes in the tropics a review |
| topic | goats [caprinae] sheep [caprinae] animal breeders research projects tropical zones land races breeding methods small farms pastoral society farming systems introduced breeds crossbreeding indigenous knowledge |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/33177 |
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