Goat phenotype training 2012
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ICARDA-ILRI Training Course on Methods and Approaches on Phenotypic Characterization of Animal Genetic Resources (Goats)
Addis Ababa
20-21 December 2012
| Thursday, 20 December 2012 | ||
| Time | Program item | Who |
| 08:30 | Registration | Rahel Mesganaw (ILRI) & Martha Sintayehu (ICARDA) |
| 08:50 | PRESENTATION] Participant introductions |
Iain Wright (ILRI) Getinet Assefa ( EIAR) Solomon Abegaz (IBC) Halima Hassen & Tadelle Dessie (ICARDA-ILRI) Peter Ballantyne |
| 10:00 | PRESENTATION] * What is phenotypic characterization? * The breed concept * Approaches to characterization |
Tadelle Dessie (ILRI) |
| 10:30 | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Conceptual framework (cont…) * Quantitative procedures for breed identification * Constituents of phenotypic characterization |
Tadelle Dessie (ILRI) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Operational framework * Establish the study team * Collect background information * Clarify the objectives and scope of the study |
Solomon Gizaw (ILRI) |
| 15:30 | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 15:45 | Data collection, data management and analysis | Aynalem Haile (ICARDA) |
| ^ | Reporting and communication | Halima Hassen (ICARDA) |
| 16:45 | Checklist * General guidelines * Discrete or qualitative variables * Quantitative variables * Flock-level data collection * Data collected on traits that require repeated measurements |
Solomon Gizaw and Halima Halima |
| 17:00 | Close | |
| Friday, 21 December 2012 | ||
| Time | Program item | Who |
| 6:30 | Field exercise (to be determined) | Facilitator: Grum Gebreyesus/Tadelle Dessie |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Field visit (cont..) | Facilitator: Aynalem Haile/ Halima Hassen |
| 15:00 | Tea/coffee Break | |
| Reflection on the field exercise | Facilitator: Aynalem Haile/Solomon Gizaw | |
| 16:00 | Closing remarks | Tadelle Dessie |
