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Goats account for about 30% of Africa's ruminant livestock and produce about 17 and 12% of its meat and milk, respectively. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for over 60% of the total goat population in Africa, with an estimated 147million goats representing about 80 indigenous breeds or strains...


Lebbie, S.H.B.[Goats under household conditions]Goats under household conditions

A survey was conducted by way of personal interviews with 562 respondents comprising 459 farmers and 103 butchers/traders in selected districts in the central and western parts of Kenya, consisting of three predominantly smallholder and four predominantly pastoral/extensive districts. The study a...


Kosgey, I.S.Rowlands, G.J.Arendonk, Johan A.M. vanBaker, R.L.[Small ruminant production in smallholder and pastoral/extensive farming systems in Kenya]Small ruminant production in smallholder and pastoral/extensive farming systems in Kenya
Colfer, C.J.P.Achdiawan, R.Roshetko, J.M.Mulyoutami, E.Yuliani, L.Mulyana, A.Moeliono, M.Adnan, H.Erni[The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi]The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi

Income measures are increasingly used as an indicator of the well-being of forest villagers, their use of forest products, and even the value of a forest. The methods for estimating income are often underreported, however, and little analysis is available of the methods required to measure income...


Wollenberg, Eva K.[Methods for estimating forest income and their challenges]Methods for estimating forest income and their challenges

Two questionnaire surveys of fuel use by low-income households in Zimbabwe were conducted in four small towns in 1994, and in these towns plus four larger towns in 1999. An energy transition from wood through kerosene to electricity occured (a) with rising household income, (b) with increasing el...


Campbell, Bruce M.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Mangono, J.J.Mabugu, R.[The energy transition in action: domestic fuel choices in a changing Zimbabwe]The energy transition in action: domestic fuel choices in a changing Zimbabwe
Autor: Mutamba, M.

The Zimbabwe woodlands are an important part of the rural households' livelihood system as they meet requirements for food, energy, construction materials and cash. This study uses linear programming approaches to understand how households best allocate scarce resources in meeting their requireme...


Mutamba, M.[Impact of crop producer price changes on quantities of woodland products collected by communal households in Chivi, Zimbabwe]Impact of crop producer price changes on quantities of woodland products collected by communal households in Chivi, Zimbabwe

The increasing frequency of extreme climate events such as droughts and floods, as well as increasing temperatures and declining rainfall, are the expected future weather patterns of climate change hot spots such as Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change and variability hot spot areas will be most vu...


Nhamo, L.Chilonda, Pius[Climate change risk and vulnerability mapping and profiling at local level using the Household Economy Approach (HEA).]Climate change risk and vulnerability mapping and profiling at local level using the Household Economy Approach (HEA).
Kakumanu, Krishna ReddyPalanisami, KuppananRanganathan, C.R.Haileslassie, Amare[Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India]Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India

Prior to 1975, agriculture in Ethiopia was organized largely under feudalistic/imperial arrangements, The Ethiopian military government (1974-1991) issued the Land Reform Proclamation in 1975 which nationalized and redistributed most of the agricultural land among rural households. Land redistrib...


Omiti, J.M.Parton, K.A.Ehui, Simeon K.Sinden, J.A.[Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia]Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia
Autor: Coppock, D.L.

Studies labour requirements, opportunity costs, and problems of hay making by pastoral women for households involved in initial extension activities in 1990. It provides a close link of research with extension and reveals wether hay making could be a viable intervention. Includes data for hay mak...


Coppock, D.L.[Hay making by pastoral women for improved calf management in Ethiopia: Labour requirements, opportunity costs, and feasibility of intervention]Hay making by pastoral women for improved calf management in Ethiopia: Labour requirements, opportunity costs, and feasibility of intervention

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