Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

2004

Author : Christopher B. Barrett
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Download or read book Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia written by Christopher B. Barrett. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks that plunge them into massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. One of the most puzzling features of pastoralist behavior in times of stress has been their relatively low and non-responsive rate of marketed off-take of animals when faced with likely losses to herd mortality. As Figure 1, from Desta (1999), finds in 17-year herd history data from Borana pastoralists in southern Ethiopia, mortality always exceeds net sales as a share of beginning period herd size, with the latter never exceeding three percent and moving hardly at all in response to shocks to rangeland carrying capacity that cause regular spikes in mortality rates. This case might be more pronounced than others, but the basic pattern is widely believed representative of herd dynamics and marketing patterns among east African ASAL pastoralists.

Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists

2008

Author : Christopher B. Barrett
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Download or read book Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists written by Christopher B. Barrett. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks triggering massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. On the surface, it appears puzzling that pastoralists do not make extensive use of livestock markets to offload animals when climatic shocks temporarily reduce the carrying capacity of local rangelands, and then use markets to restock their herds when local conditions recover. In recent years, donors and policy makers have begun to hypothesize that investments in livestock marketing systems might quickly pay for themselves through reduced demand for relief aid, by increasing pastoralist marketing responsiveness to temporal variation in range conditions.

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Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa

2006 Business & Economics

Author : John G. McPeak
Release : 2006
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Download or read book Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa written by John G. McPeak. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, evidence-based investigation of livestock marketing in Eastern Africa which approaches the issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, economics, geography, and rangeland ecology. Editors John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little present current findings on how livestock markets in this area operate, describe policy options that help markets function more effectively, and identify topics meriting further research. The issues are examined at a variety of levels (household, market, national, and international), and many of the authors place emphasis on cross-border trade: an area not currently well understood but of substantial economic importance. The book is written in a clear, straightforward style and, though the authors come from a variety of fields, jargon and discipline-specific terms are kept to a minimum.

Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists

2001

Author : DeeVon Bailey
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Download or read book Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists written by DeeVon Bailey. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides an overview of the state of the livestock marketing channel in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya, based mainly on secondary data, examines the relevant literature dealing with risk in livestock markets in sub-Saharan Africa, determines critical livestock marketing research needs in our study area of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya and introduces a conceptual framework that we think can usefully guide further empirical research. We also examine methodologies that could be used to evaluate the market risks faced by pastoralists.

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