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Determining ideal sites for a pilot experiment in Colombia to trial new forages in East Africa

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Title Determining ideal sites for a pilot experiment in Colombia to trial new forages in East Africa
 
Creator Oliphant, Hannah
Mora, Brayan
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
Castiblanco, Valheria
 
Subject livestock
breeding
 
Description The livelihood of approximately 37 million people of the East African (EA) region is highly dependent on livestock. As the pressure for livestock products heightens with growing populations, already harsh environmental conditions are predicted only to worsen (Fisher et al. 2005; Thornton et al. 2007). In Cali, Colombia, the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is leading a cutting edge new breeding programme by developing improved forage varieties specially designed to succeed in the East African
 
Date 2019
2019-04-22T16:37:15Z
2019-04-22T16:37:15Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Oliphant H; Mora B; Ramírez-Villegas J; Castiblanco V. 2019. Determining ideal sites for a pilot experiment in Colombia to trial new forages in East Africa. In: International Forage & Turf Breeding Conference 24-27 March 2019, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA. 1p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100869
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1:00 PM
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture