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Household-level livestock marketing behavior among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian pastoralists

Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor); … - 2004

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Decentralization of Pastoral Resources Management and its Effects on Environmental Degradation and Poverty Experience from Northern Kenya

Munyao, Kioko; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2013

This chapter explores these issues in the Hurri Hills area of Marsabit District, where externally imposed changes in governance have combined with a World Bank Global Environmental Facility (GEF) project to alter local patterns of natural resource management. In particular, in the process of...

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Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists : A Review and Research Agenda

Bailey, DeeVon; Barrett, Christopher B.; Little, Peter D.; … - 2001

This paper provides an overview of the state of the livestock marketing channel in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya …-Saharan Africa, determines critical livestock marketing research needs in our study area of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136969

Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia : An Analysis of Constraints Limiting Off-Take Rates

Barrett, Christopher B.; McPeak, John G.; Luseno, Winnie; … - 2004

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...

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

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2008

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727423

Challenging Orthodoxies : Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa

Little, Peter D.; McPeak, John G.; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2014

what should be done to alleviate it. Based on data from an interdisciplinary study of pastoralism in northern Kenya, this …

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