The Livestock and Fish program combines a focus on value chain development in a few target countries with ‘technology’ research on animal feeding, genetics and health. In Ethiopia, this has led to support for academic research grounded in the value chain needs identified in recent years.

In 2014, five students completed their PhD and Masters research – in Ethiopia and Austria.

Read the theses online:

• Design of community based breeding programs for two indigenous goat breeds of Ethiopia

• Determinants of the decision to participate in the marketing of goats by rural households in Ethiopia

• Effect of genetic improvement of sheep in Ethiopia: Development of a dynamic stochastic simulation herd model

• On-farm phenotypic characterization and performance evaluation of Bati, Borena and short eared Somali goat populations of Ethiopia

• On-farm phenotypic characterization and performance evaluation of abergelle and central highland goat breeds as an input for designing community-based breeding program