Keyword Archives: livestock
On the Hoof: Livestock Trade in Darfur
This report explores what has happened to the livestock trade in the greater Darfur region during nine years of conflict, since 2003. Livestock is one of Darfur’s main economic assets and makes a major contribution to Sudan’s national livestock and … Read More
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Keywords: Darfur, livestock
Lifting Livelihoods with Livestock
Between 2008 and 2011, over two thousand households were provided with informal loans for livestock value addition in an effort to graduate them from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Raya Azebo woreda, Ethiopia.
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Keywords: livelihoods, livestock
Shifting Sands
Although pastoralists in Ethiopia are often characterized as unresponsive to market opportunities, the bulk of Ethiopia’s growing formal and informal livestock and meat exports are supplied from pastoralist areas of the country.
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Keywords: camel marketing, livestock, pastoralism, trade
Mind the Gap
This was a follow on study to earlier regional analysis for the IGAD-FAO Livestock Policy Initiative that examined the benefits of livestock exports by pastoralist wealth group.
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Keywords: livestock, pastoralism, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia, trade
Moving Up or Moving Out?
The pastoralists of Shinile Zone in the Somali Region of Ethiopia experience multiple livelihoods challenges and various types of conflict.
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Keywords: livelihoods, livestock, pastoralism, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
Livestock Exports from the Horn of Africa
Support to the export of pastoralist livestock from the Horn of Africa is often viewed by aid organizations as a key poverty reduction strategy. Drawing on existing literature and field research in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, this report examines if and how different wealth groups benefit from the export trade. It looks in detail at the household-level economic strategies of different pastoralist wealth groups and their marketing behaviors, and concludes that in terms of poverty reduction, poorer herders benefit least from livestock exports.
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Keywords: livestock, pastoralism, Regional Policy Support to IGAD, trade
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccination in South Sudan: benefit-cost analysis and livelihoods impact
By M. Barasa, A. Catley, D. Machuchu, H. Laqua, E. Puot, D. Tap Kot, and D. Ikiror (2008). Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 55, 339-351
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: foot-and-mouth disease, livestock, pastoralism
Livelihoods impact and benefit-cost estimation of a commercial de-stocking relief intervention in Moyale district, southern Ethiopia
By D. Abebe, D, A. Cullis, A. Catley, Y. Aklilu, G. Mekonnen, and Y. Ghebrechirstos (2008). Disasters, 32/2 June 2008
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: humanitarian action, impact, livestock, pastoralism, trade
Adaptation and Devastation
Conflict and crisis in Darfur has continued unabated since 2003. Whilst there has been a growing body of knowledge about how this has impacted on livelihoods, there has been much less focus on understanding how trade and markets – the lifeblood of Darfur’s economy – have been affected.
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Keywords: conflict, Darfur, livelihoods, livestock, pastoralism, trade
Impact Assessment of the Pastoralist Survival and Recovery Project Dakoro, Niger
This report is the outcome of an impact assessment of the ‘Pastoralist Survival and Recovery Project’ implemented by Lutheran World Relief and partners in North Dakoro, Niger. The assessment is the last of four impact studies carried out by the Feinstein Center under the “Impact Assessment of Innovative Humanitarian Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa” research initiative supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Keywords: livestock, pastoralism, re-stocking