Elbeltagy, Ahmed R.Kim, Eui-SooHaile, AynalemRischkowsky, BarbaraRothschild, Max F.2017-03-122017-03-12Joram Mwacharo, Ahmed R. Elbeltagy, Eui-Soo Kim, Aynalem Haile, Barbara Rischkowsky, Max F. Rothschild. (31/7/2016). Indigenous stocks as treasure troves for sustainable livestock production in the 21st century: Insights from small ruminant genomics. Salt Lake City, United States of America.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6427The versatility of indigenous sheep and goats to adapt to diverse environmental conditions and production systems positions them as significant animal genetic resources for sustaining livelihoods of agro-pastoralists, pastoralists and small holder farmers in many developing countries. In most of these countries, recording phenotypic and pedigree information has remained a challenge, cohorts of contemporaries are often of inadequate size, breeding infrastructures are non-existent and where they exist are rudimentary, and advanced reproductive technologies are difficult to implement. These drawbacks can however, be circumvented through community–based breeding programmes (CBBP) which can provide a framework to design and implement basic recording and mating schemes.PDFCC-BY-NC-4.0constraintConference PaperOpen access