COURSE NAME: ANIMAL GENETICS AND BREEDING IMPROVEMENT
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Historical perspective of livestock breeding; Traits in farm animals; Review of classical/Mendelian genetics; Population genetics: Gene, genetic, genotypic frequencies; Hardy-Weinberg law; Effects of selection, mutation &migration of gene frequencies; Heritability & Repeatability: Definitions; methods of estimation; importance or uses; Principles of selection: Types of selection; stages of selection; criteria for selection; methods of selection; Prediction of improvement from selection; Mating systems: inbreeding systems; crossbreeding systems; genetic basis of inbreeding and crossbreeding; breeding program; breeding systems (nucleus scheme, co-operative schemes and traditional improvement models).
This course discusses gender dimensions of Livestock management. It provides an exploration of the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested element of social relationships. It focuses on environments in as a realm in which new realities are producing significant challenges for natural resource management, livelihoods and the mitigation of social inequalities