Identification of smallholder farmers and pastoralists' preferences for sheep breeding traits: Choice model approach

Animal

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1984-1992

  Duguma, G ^a,b,c   Mirkena, T ^a,b,d   Haile, A ^a,f   Okeyo, A M ^e   Tibbo, M ^f   Rischkowsky, B ^f   Solkner J ^b   Wurzinger, M ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c Oromia Agriculture Research Institue   (Ethiopia)

^d HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

breeding; choice experiment; community based; Ethiopia; sheep

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80955155028     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111001029     Document Type: Article

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