Pastoralism & Marketing (page 23)
Mind the gap: increasing wealth disparity with livestock exports
Building on a regional analysis for the IGAD-FAO Livestock Policy Initiative, Yacob Aklilu and Andy Catley of Tufts University examined how different pastoralist wealth groups in Ethiopia benefit from livestock exports. Mind the gap: commercialization, livelihoods and wealth disparity in pastoralist areas focuses on the Borana and Somali areas, and describes the growing formal trade […]
Money to burn? Costs & benefits of drought responses
A simple economic model was used to compare the aid costs of two approaches to supporting pastoralist households during drought in Ethiopia. One approach was the timely commercial destocking, enabling households to acquire cash through livestock sales to private traders and to use the cash to buy food and inputs to protect key livestock assets. […]
The futures of pastoralism in Africa
On 1 March 2012, Andy Catley of the Africa Regional Office of Tufts University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, made a briefing to the European Parliament in Brussels. He highlighted the many different futures of pastoralism, differentiating between those pastoralists who are “moving up” and taking advantage of the high market demand for livestock products and those pastoralists […]
The golden udder: marketing camel milk
Marketing milk from camels in Puntland, Somalia by Michele Nori In Puntland in northeastern Somalia, an elaborate system of trading milk has emerged since the early 1990s. An interesting feature of this system is that milk and its marketing are managed mainly by women, even though men own the camels and are responsible for managing, […]
Pastoral women transform poor communities in Ethiopia
Capacity building helps pastoral women transform impoverished communities in Ethiopia Poverty, drought, and hunger devastate people on Africa’s rangelands. An action-oriented approach was used 2000-2004 to build capacity among thousands of pastoralists to diversify livelihoods, improve living standards and enhance livestock marketing. The process included collective action, microfinance and participatory education. Poor women previously burdened […]