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Pastoral livestock marketing in Eastern Africa : research and policy challenges / edited by John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Rugby, Warwickshire : Intermediate Technology Publications, 2006.Description: xxiv, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1853396311
  • 9781853396311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 636.00688 22 PAS
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1 Introduction
Peter D. Little and John G. McPeak
2 Household-level livestock marketing behaviour
among northern Kenyan and southern Ethiopian
pastoralists
Christopher B. Barrett, Marc F. Bellemare and
Sharon M. Osterloh
3 Livestock marketing in Marsabit District, Kenya,
over the past fifty years
John G. McPeak
4 Determinants of market prices of livestock:
the case of cattle in Alemaya, Eastern Ethiopia
Teressa Adugna
5 Livestock market organization and price
distributions in northern Kenya
Alan M. Green, Christopher B. Barrett, Winnie K. Luseno
and John G. McPeak
6 Determinants of cattle prices in southern, Kenya:
implications for breed conservation and pastoral
marketing strategies
Maren Radeny, Patti Kristjanson, Eric Ruto,
Riccardo Scarpa and Jacob Wakhungu
7 Linking pastoralists and exporters in a livestock
marketing chain: recent experiences from Ethiopia
Solomon Desta, Getachew Gebru, Seyoum Tezera
and D. Layne Coppock
8 Innovations in pastoral livestock marketing: the
emergence and the role of 'Somali cattle
traders-cum-ranchers' in Kenya
Hussein A. Mahmoud
9 The geography of integration: cross-border livestock
trade in East Africa
Fred Zaal, Morgan Ole Siloma, Rachel Andiema
and Albino Kotomei
10 Working across borders: methodological and
policy challenges of cross-border livestock trade
in the Horn of Africa
Peter D. Little
11 A review of policies and their impact on livestock
trade in Ethiopia during three regimes (1965-2005)
Yacob Aklilu
12 Livestock market information systems for East Africa:
the case of LINKS/GL-CRSP
Jerry Stuth, Abdi Jama, Robert Kaitho, Jimmy Wu,
Abdirahman Ali, Gatarwa Kariuki and Margaret Kingamkono
13 Pastoralist coping strategies and emergency livestock
market intervention
John Morton
14 Conclusion: the policy implications and future
research needs
John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little and Montague W. Demment

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.

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