Keyword Archives: trade
Markets and Trade in Darfur
The Feinstein International Center provides advisory support to the Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency (DRA) – a national NGO in Sudan – to set up and manage a community-based market monitoring network in the Darfur Region. The goal of this market monitoring initiative is to deepen analysis and understanding of the shifting patterns of trade and markets in Darfur on an ongoing basis for key agricultural and livestock commodities; identify how livelihoods and the economy can be supported through trade; and identify peace-building opportunities through trade.
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Keywords: Darfur, market monitoring, markets, Sudan Environment and Livelihoods, trade
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.
Posted in Publications, Reports
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.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livestock, pastoralism, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia, trade
Baseline and Mid-term Assessment of the PSNP Plus Project in Doba
This report presents the findings of the first two stages of an assessment of the PSNP Plus project in Doba woreda in West Hararghe. These assessments are part of a broader longitudinal impact study of the PSNP Plus project, which targets poor, rural households in food insecure areas that benefit from the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP). The goal of PSNP Plus is to move households towards graduation from PSNP through market-driven approaches to diversify their livelihoods, build assets and link to financial services and markets.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: finance, markets, microfinance, PSNP, trade
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.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livestock, pastoralism, Regional Policy Support to IGAD, trade
Livelihoods, Power and Choice (Presentation Slides)
Presentation slides for the Livelihoods, Power and Choice project findings.
Posted in Presentations, Publications
Keywords: Darfur, livelihoods, nutrition, pastoralism, security, trade
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.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: conflict, Darfur, livelihoods, livestock, pastoralism, trade
Trade, Migration and Remittance Flows In Times of Conflict and Crisis — A Case-Study of Darfurian Livelihoods and Libya
By H. Young and A. M. Osman, (2007). International Migration Review. 41(4): 826-849.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: Darfur, migration, remittances, trade
Using Microenterprise Interventions to Support the Livelihoods of Forcibly Displaced People: The Impact of a Microcredit Program in IDP Camps in Lira, Northern Uganda
By Karen Jacobsen, Anastasia Marshak, Akua Ofori-Adjei and Jane Kembabazi. Refugee Survey Quarterly. May 2006. (Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 23-39.)
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: finance, internally-displaced persons, microenterprise, trade