Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from Bonga and Menz sheep breeds managed under community-based breeding program

We sincerely acknowledge DBARC and BARC for providing primary data from CBBP villages. We extend our gratitude to the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and AbacusBio for the development of data collection tools, Digital Tool for Recording and Evaluation of Animals (DTREO), which improved data quality and accessibility. The Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the Unique Land Use project are thanked for their funding support of the first author as part of his PhD research. We appreciate the efforts of researchers and enumerators for their contributions to data collection, expert elicitation, and the provision of valuable insights into the two sheep CBBPs. Special thanks to Mr. Asfaw Bisrat and Metsafe Mamiru for coordinating fieldwork and managing households for primary data collections. We also acknowledge the CBBP enumerators and cooperative leaders for their role in ensuring high-quality data collection and sustaining village operations.

This work did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies.

Authors and Affiliations

1. College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

   Assemu Tesfa, Mengistie Taye, Aynalem Haile & Zerihun Nigussie

2. Andassa Livestock Research Center, Amhara Agricultural Research Institute, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

   Assemu Tesfa

3. Institute of Biotechnology Research, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

   Mengistie Taye

4. International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   Aynalem Haile & Tesfaye Getachew

5. International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Rabat, Morocco

   Dina Najjar

6. Unique Land Use GmbH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   Shigdaf Mekuriaw

7. Global Engagement Office, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA

   Shimels E. Wassie

8. Debre Birhan Agricultural Research Center, Amhara Agricultural Research Institute, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia

   Shanbel Besufkad & Checkol Demis

9. Sowthwest Ethiopia Agricultural Research Institute, Bonga, Ethiopia

   Zelalem Abate

10. Unique Land Use GmbH, Freiburg, Germany

    Suzanne van Dijk & Andreas Wilkes

11. International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Dawit Solomon

Corresponding author

Correspondence to
Assemu Tesfa.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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