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

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dc.contributor.authorBellemare, Marc F.
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Christopher B.
dc.contributor.authorOsterloh, Sharon M.
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-21T17:09:50Z
dc.date.available2018-08-21T17:09:50Z
dc.date.issued2004-11-01
dc.descriptionWP 2005-11 November 2004
dc.description.abstractPastoralists 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 shocks temporarily reduce the carrying capacity of local rangelands, and then use markets to restock their herds when local conditions recover. In recent years, donors and policy makers have begun to hypothesize that investments in livestock marketing systems might quickly pay for themselves through reduced demand for relief aid,by increasing pastoralist marketing responsiveness to temporal variation in range conditions.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/57862
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherCharles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
dc.titleHousehold-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists
dc.typearticle
dcterms.licensehttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/57595

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