Lange, Simon; Reimers, Malte - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2014
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African Semi-arid Tropics (WASAT) are often substantial yet there is … datasets covering Burkina Faso’s 2004 drought, we find that livestock sales increase significantly in response to drought … little evidence for precautionary saving in the form of livestock out of transitory income. The present paper re-visits farm …