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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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Indirect costs of sheep depredation by large carnivores in Sweden

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019
Carnivore depredation gives rise to direct costs for killed and injured animals as well as indirect costs due to productivity losses and additional labor requirements.
Marit Widman, Margareta Steen, Katarina Elofsson   +2 more
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Variability in disease phenotypes within a single PRNP genotype suggests the existence of multiple natural sheep scarpie strains within Europe [PDF]

, 2010
Variability of pathological phenotypes within classical sheep scrapie cases has been reported for some time, but in many instances it has been attributed to differences in the PRNP genotype of the host.
González, L., E. Monleon, L. J. M. van Keulen, Jeffrey, M., Balkema-Buschmann, A., C. Hoffmann, Badiola, J.J., Lulini, B., Keulen, L.J.M., van, van Keulen, L.J.M., A. Balkema-Buschmann, Monleón, E., S. Siso, A. Ortiz-Pelaez, Langeveld, J.P.M., Hoffmann, C., J. J. Badiola, Sisó, S., Acín, C., Ortiz-Peláez, A., J. P. M. Langeveld, B. Iulini, M. Jeffrey, L. Gonzalez, C. Casalone, Casalone, C., C. Acin   +26 more
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mineral requirements for growth of wool and hair lambs

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2013
The present study was conducted to determine the body composition and the mineral requirements for growth of wool and hair lambs. A total of 34 castrated lambs with an initial body weight (BW) of 19.9±0.8 kg were used; 17 of these lambs were of the ...
Izabelle Auxiliadora Molina de Almeida Teixeira, Kléber Tomás de Resende, Aderbal Marcos de Azevêdo Silva, Américo Garcia da Silva Sobrinho, Carla Joice Härter, Ana Paula de Oliveira Sader   +5 more
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Carcass and meat quality of “Leccese” breed lambs suckling from ewes fed diets containing vegetable by-pass protein

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2011
It is considered necessary to supplement the majority of dietary proteins for the rearing of goats and sheep (Pulina et al., 1990; Robinson, 1987). In ruminants, 70 % of protein requirement is satisfied by cytoplasmic synthesised protein, while the ...
A. Tateo, P. Centoducati
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Metazoan-protozoan parasite co-infections and host body weight in St Kilda Soay sheep [PDF]

, 2008
For hundreds of years, the unmanaged Soay sheep population on St Kilda has survived despite enduring presumably deleterious co-infections of helminth, protozoan and arthropod parasites and intermittent periods of starvation.
Tempest, L. J., Pilkington, J. G., Pemberton, J. M., Craig, B. H.   +3 more
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Animal stroke models and outcome evaluation: A review

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Rodents are the preeminent stroke model species. Large animal models exist too, but are poorly standardized. Ischemic and hemorrhagic experimental models are available, with the intraluminal filament model being predominant. Outcomes are evaluated via quantifying subjects' sensorimotor impairment, cognitive memory faculties, degree of cellular ...
Solsa Cariba, Helen M. Atkinson, Anthony K. C. Chan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of β-carotene supplementation above requirement on the production and reproduction performance of female sheep and goats - A mini review

Aceh Journal of Animal Science
The high rate of metabolic activity during breeding, pregnancy, parturition and lactation may lead to oxidative stress in sheep and goats. Antioxidant supplementation is proposed as a therapy for encountering resultant stress.
Osman Ahmed, Abubeker Hassen, Khoboso Lehloenya   +2 more
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Classification of sheep category using chemical analysis and statistical classification algorithms [PDF]

, 2011
In Australia, dentition (eruption of permanent incisors) is used as a proxy for age to define sheep meat quality. Lamb is defined as having no permanent incisors, hogget as having at least one incisor and mutton is defined as having two or more incisors.
Watkins, Peter
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