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Goats support food security and rural livelihoods for smallholder farmers, offering women opportunities for household economic autonomy. Indigenous breeds are particularly valuable because their low-maintenance nature and adaptive traits suit changing climatic conditions. Despite these advantages, sustainable use and breed enhancement face obstacles due to insufficient focus on farmer-centred technology development and inadequate breed characterisation. Overcoming these barriers requires establishing stronger links between production and markets, as well as enacting practical agricultural policies at national and regional levels. Progress also relies on the introduction of community breeding programmes, sustained government backing, and collaborative regional research to enhance the potential of indigenous goat populations.
Indigenous goats are vital assets for rural households facing climate change, especially for women seeking financial independence. Addressing the technical and policy gaps that limit indigenous goat breeding and marketing can strengthen local agricultural economies, improve household resilience, and safeguard animal genetic resources suited to challenging rural environments.
Opportunities centre on developing farmer-focused livestock technologies, market linkage mechanisms, and community-based breeding programmes for smallholder farmers and agricultural enterprises. The abstract highlights strategic needs rather than tested products, indicating that practical commercialisation pathways and breeding tools remain at an early concept stage requiring regional collaboration and policy backing.
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Goats have a key role in ensuring food security and economic livelihood to smallholder farmers in rural areas. Women play a vital role in goat rearing, promoting economic autonomy within households. Indigenous goats dominate and are of high significance due to their adaptive traits that are relevant for climate change and low maintenance. However, lack of emphasis on farmer-centered technology development and proper breed characterization remains a hitch to sustainable utilization and breed development of indigenous goats. This can be over come through proper linkage between market and production, workable regional and national agricultural policies, community breeding programs, collaborative research work within the region, and consistent government support.
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DOI: 10.3390/d12010020
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