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Small ruminant feed systems: perceptions and practices in the transitional zone of Ghana [1]

Adequate feeding is essential to realizing the potential of small ruminants to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers. This study was conducted in two villages in the Ejura-Sekyedumase District of Ghana and was motivated by farmers' non-adoption of modern feed technologies, but more importantly by the need to understand the small ruminant feed system considering farmers' different socio-economic backgrounds and how these relate to small ruminant performance. In this study, the feed system was defined as the type, source and seasonality of feeds and how small ruminants access them.

Publication Date: 
19/03/2010
Stephanie Duku [2], Akke J van der Zijpp [3], Patricia Howard [4]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine [5]
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Tags:
Animal Care [6], Animal Feed [7], Livestock [8], Goats [9], Farmers [10], Poverty [11], Ghana [12]
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/akke-j-van-der-zijpp
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/patricia-howard
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/journal-ethnobiology-and-ethnomedicine
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/animal-feed
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/livestock
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/goats
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ghana