This paper undertakes an ex ante economic analysis of research on how resistance to trypanosomosis - a dominant livestock disease in Africa - can be maintained and enhanced while retaining and reinforcing characteristics of economic importance to farmers, and on how 'trypanotolerance' can be impa...
Falconi, C.A.
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Omamo, S.W.
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D'Ieteren, G.D.M.
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Iraqi, F.A.
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[An ex ante economic and policy analysis of research on genetic resistance to livestock disease: Trypanosomiasis in Africa]
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An ex ante economic and policy analysis of research on genetic resistance to livestock disease: Trypanosomiasis in Africa
This paper discusses past and present approaches to managing tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomosis in Africa and describes the three main weaknesses of these approaches, i.e., inappropriate objectives, inadequate links between research and policy-making and a lack of recognition that trypano...
This paper reports results of a study aimed at identifying broad demand-side and supply-side influences on trade in inorganic fertilizers in Kenya, where, following decades of government control, the fertilizer market has been fully liberalized. Multiple regression analysis using data from a coun...
Omamo, S.W.
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Mose, L.O.
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[Fertilizer trade under market liberalizations: Preliminary evidence from Kenya]
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Fertilizer trade under market liberalizations: Preliminary evidence from Kenya