Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy ChallengesFeatures case studies primarily focusing on Ethiopia and Kenya to offer research from a variety of regional communities to explore issues of household sales behavior, price determinants, livestock market information systems, cross border and export marketing, and crisis period marketing. Firmly tied to recommendations for future research and policy, the editors contend that current thinking, which asserts that more effective marketing will automatically achieve multiple desirable outcomes, including environmental benefits, may be flawed. The studies presented illustrate how it is possible to improve livestock marketing and achieve multiple desirable objectives through serious and coordinated effort. Filling an important gap in the literature, this is important reading for all those interested in livestock development and pastoral economies in East Africa. |
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A third group of livestock traders represent those who are involved in specula- tion . They buy animals that they then sell in the same centre a few days later ( or even the same day ) . Like traders anywhere in the world , they try to ...
A third group of livestock traders represent those who are involved in specula- tion . They buy animals that they then sell in the same centre a few days later ( or even the same day ) . Like traders anywhere in the world , they try to ...
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This approach could help promote wealth conserva- tion and build human capacity to better protect people from economic and ecological shocks . For example , results from a portfolio analysis using 17 years of Borana cattle dynamics ...
This approach could help promote wealth conserva- tion and build human capacity to better protect people from economic and ecological shocks . For example , results from a portfolio analysis using 17 years of Borana cattle dynamics ...
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Recognizing that mobile coverage does not cover all areas important to livestock marketing , the goal is to integrate communica- tion technologies that are feasible in each market location and build a plat- form that accommodates all of ...
Recognizing that mobile coverage does not cover all areas important to livestock marketing , the goal is to integrate communica- tion technologies that are feasible in each market location and build a plat- form that accommodates all of ...
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Contents
Householdlevel livestock marketing behaviour | 15 |
1 Site descriptions | 18 |
6 Births and purchases in TLUS across species by quarter | 24 |
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abattoirs Addis Ababa Agriculture Aklilu animals average Barrett body condition Borana border breed brokers buyers camels cash cattle cattle prices cent coping strategies costs cross-border livestock trade cross-border trade Development drought eastern Africa economic ELMI estimated Ethiopia fees Gabra Garissa goats herd sizes herders Horn of Africa household herd impact important increased institutions interventions Jijiga Kajiado Kajiado District Kariobangi kilogram live weight livelihoods livestock marketing livestock prices livestock production LMIS Maasai Maasai Zebu Mahmoud Mariakani market day market participants market prices marketing chain Marsabit District McPeak meat Mombasa Moyale Nairobi North Horr northern Kenya PARIMA pastoral areas pastoralists price per kilogram producers Program purchase ranches rangelands region risk role sector sell sellers sheep slaughter small stock sold Somali livestock southern Ethiopia Suguta Table Tanzania terminal markets tion traders transactions transport variable veterinary volume West Pokot District Zaal Zebu
Bibliographic information
| Title | Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges |
| Editors | John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Intermediate Technology Publications, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1853396311, 9781853396311 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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