A better breeds? Improving livestock in West Africa
2002
Roger Blench
Technical interventions into ruminant livestock throughout much of Africa until recently focused on the introduction of ‘new’ or ‘improved’, usually exotic, breeds. Results from stations and university farms show that productivity could improve under more intensive management, yet the baseline was still so low that importation of exotic breeds became a means of short-circuiting the otherwise slow process of breeding more productive stock. In west central Africa, imported European stock either died or was cross-bred with local animals to the extent that the desirable characteristics it originally had disappeared.
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