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Upgrading Stock Genetics: Breeding Systems

Upgrading Stock Genetics: Breeding Systems  To support the ongoing breeding program, trainings and hands-on demonstrations were provided on genetics and nutrition for students at the Centre […]

GPS Mapping

GPS Mapping Matt McIntosh focused on GPS tracking of sedentary small ruminant herds to understand livestock grazing patterns on rangeland and crop fields and included: • […]

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Nutrient Rich Molasses Blocks

Molasses Blocks from Local Ingredients   Sheep and goat diets in Mali are based on fibrous, low nutrient feeds like mature pastures and crop residues. These […]

GPS Mapping Results in the Niger River Valley

Rainy Season Herding Patterns Poster

Smallholder livestock production in Mali’s rain-fed agro-pastoral systems is strongly limited by deficient levels of ruminant feeding (Eibils et al. 2015). Crop cycles frequently dictate access […]

VEGA Final Report 2016

Common Pastures: Sustaining Flocks, Farms and Families

Meeting feed and forage requirements of small ruminants is the most urgent need for livestock smallholders in the agro-pastoral systems of Mali according to a meta-analysis […]