Pastoral livestock marketing in Eastern Africa : research and policy challenges /

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Imprint:Rugby, Warwickshire : Intermediate Technology Publications, 2006.
Description:xxiv, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6115355
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Other authors / contributors:McPeak, John G.
Little, Peter D.
ISBN:1853396311
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.
Standard no.:9781853396311
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgement
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Authors
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Household-level livestock marketing behaviour among northern Kenyan and southern Ethiopian pastoralists
  • 3. Livestock marketing in Marsabit District, Kenya, over the past fifty years
  • 4. Determinants of market prices of livestock: the case of cattle in Alemaya, Eastern Ethiopia
  • 5. Livestock market organization and price distributions in northern Kenya
  • 6. Determinants of cattle prices in southern Kenya: implications for breed conservation and pastoral marketing strategies
  • 7. Linking pastoralists and exporters in a livestock marketing chain: recent experiences from Ethiopia
  • 8. Innovations in pastoral livestock marketing: the emergence and the role of 'Somali cattle traders-cum-ranchers' in Kenya
  • 9. The geography of integration: cross-border livestock trade in East Africa
  • 10. Working across borders: methodological and policy challenges of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa
  • 11. A review of policies and their impact on livestock trade in Ethiopia during three regimes (1965-2005)
  • 12. Livestock market information systems for East Africa: the case of LINKS/GL-CRSP
  • 13. Pastoralist coping strategies and emergency livestock market intervention
  • 14. Conclusion: the policy implications and future research needs
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index