Optimizing Water Use for Sustainable Feed-Food Production: Integrating Forage Crops and Improved Sheep Genotypes through Irrigation.

Sheep genotype will be improved either through selective or cross breeding. Improving genotype alone doesn't guarantee productivity; feeding and health management should be improved as well. Forage crops can be produced at the edge of irrigation canal and, beside producing quality feed, it stabilize the canal and improve water use efficiency through reducing evaporation. Sheep in tradition production system took longer period to attain marketable weight and therefore, emit greater GHG emission per unit of livestock products produced. Improving sheep productivity, improve household income and nutritional security, and create job opportunities for unemployed women and youths.