Reviews differences between crop production and pastoral production, considering their effects on research possibilities; and describes basic methods that may be used to collect household level data, esp. informal & formal surveys, enumeration and the use of questionnaires.
Discusses the importance of wealth differences among producers in traditional pastoral production systems, describing a rapid method, dependent on informants, for determining the wealth rank of producers within a given community in order to stratify a population of producers before sampling.
Grandin, B.E.
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[The importance of wealth effects on pastoral production: A rapid method of wealth ranking]
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The importance of wealth effects on pastoral production: A rapid method of wealth ranking
Reviews the appropriateness of three major assumptions underlying pastoral development in East Africa, viz, economic irrationality of pastoralists, the unchanged nature of pastoral production systems, and the applicability of western models to pastoral development.
Grandin, B.E.
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[Pastoral culture and range management: Recent lessons from Maasailand]
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Pastoral culture and range management: Recent lessons from Maasailand
Analyzes the output of the Maasai pastoral system by examining three group ranches in the Kajiado District in Kenya, first in terms of output per animal, household cash and subsistence income from livestock for large-and small-scale producers, and second in terms of output per unit of pastoral land.
Leeuw, P.N. de
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Solomon Bekure
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Grandin, B.E.
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[Aspects of livestock productivity in Maasai group ranches in Kenya]
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Aspects of livestock productivity in Maasai group ranches in Kenya