Forage germplasm at the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA): an essential resource for evaluation and selection

A major constraint to increased livestock production in sub­Saharan Africa is the generally low quality of the feed resources available from natural pastures and crop residues. Although forage research, mainly on other continents, has identified useful genotypes for environmental conditions ranging from temperate to tropical, these have generally not been adopted by African farmers. There is a nee…