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Kamara, Abdul B.Swallow, B.M.Kirk, M.[Policies, interventions and institutional change in pastoral resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia]Policies, interventions and institutional change in pastoral resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
Autor: Swallow, B.M.

This study is conducted with a general objective of evaluating contingent valuation as a method for assessing the willingness of people at a site in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia to contribute labour, time and money to tsetse control. The more specific objectives of the case study were to evalua...


Swallow, B.M.[Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia]Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia

The subhumid and semi-arid zones of West Africa are one of the subregions reputed to hold Africa's greatest potential for expansion of animal agriculture. Within this region livestock are affected by tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis-a disease that severely constrains productivity, thus hampering...


Kamuanga, M.D'Ieteren, G.D.M.Tano, K.Mugalla, C.Pokou, K.Swallow, B.M.[Improving the productivity of crop-livestock systems under trypanosomosis risk in West Africa: Potentials and opportunities in the next decade]Improving the productivity of crop-livestock systems under trypanosomosis risk in West Africa: Potentials and opportunities in the next decade
Jabbar, M.A.Swallow, B.M.D'Ieteren, G.D.M.Busari, A.A.[Farmer preferences and market values of cattle breeds of West and Central africa]Farmer preferences and market values of cattle breeds of West and Central africa

About 14 % of the world's cattle and 21 % of its sheep and goats are found in Africa on a land base that comprises 25 % of the world's total area of rangelands. Most of these rangelands are or have in the past been managed under traditional systems of communal tenure. Regrettably, the wide variet...


Swallow, B.M.Bromley, D.W.[LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands]LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands
Kamuanga, M.Bauer, B.Sigue, H.Swallow, B.M.[Livestock owners' perceptions and socio-economic assessment of the impacts of trypanosomosis and its control in southern Burkina Faso. Poster]Livestock owners' perceptions and socio-economic assessment of the impacts of trypanosomosis and its control in southern Burkina Faso. Poster
Autor: Swallow, B.M.

This chapter Reports on the major research work carried out in Lesotho and the analysis of the livestock industry in the context of rangeland utilization with overall implications for marketing. In this context the results have importance for similar livestock/range problems elsewhere in Africa. ...


Swallow, B.M.[Marketing, livestock Development, and rangeland utilization]Marketing, livestock Development, and rangeland utilization

This book documents the proceedings of the international symposium on property rights, risk and livestock Development. It was held to appraise progress, review achievements, and identify remaining research gaps at the conclusion of a three year research project led by the International Livestock ...


Swallow, B.M.McCarthy, N.[Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa]Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa

Livestock production is an enterprise undertaken by most farm households in The Gambia. Livestock production is affected, however, by the different levels of trypanosomosis risk that pertain across the country. A study of the effects of trypanosomosis on livestock and crop production was initiate...


Mugalla, C.Swallow, B.M.Kamuanga, M.[The effects of trypanosomosis risk on farmers' livestock portfolios: Evidence from The Gambia]The effects of trypanosomosis risk on farmers' livestock portfolios: Evidence from The Gambia
Autor: Swallow, B.M.

This paper presents an analytical framework for guiding studies of the use and management of natural resource systems in which: (i) several goods and services of value are produced; (ii) resource users have multiple objectives vis-a-vis collective management of the natural resource system; and (i...


Swallow, B.M.[The multiple products, functions and users of natural resource systems]The multiple products, functions and users of natural resource systems

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