Pastoralism & Marketing (page 10)
Ungoverned markets for camel milk in stateless Somali areas
The “Milking Drylands” (EC Marie Curie research) initiative addressed issues of food security, market integration, gender roles and governance matters in the Somali ecosystem. The paper “Ungoverned markets: the emergence of camel milk markets in stateless Somali areas” (undated but probably 2003 or 2003, 15pp) by Michelle Nori et al looks into mechanisms for marketing […]
Hidden value on the hoof: cross-border trade in Eastern Africa
Cross-border livestock trade has grown from a fairly minor informal activity to a dynamic enterprise that contributes to local and regional food security, meat consumption in large urban centres and poverty alleviation among pastoralists, among others. Despite its importance, the trade is often poorly understood by policymakers and suffers from ambiguous policies and administrative actions, […]
Livestock trade in the Horn of Africa
The report “Livestock trade in the Horn of Africa” (2010, 10pp) is a summary of the presentations and discussion held at Chatham House, UK, on 19 October 2010 during a workshop on two papers by Hussein Mahmoud and Nisar Majid on “Livestock trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian borderlands” and “Livestock trade in the […]
Consumption and preservation of non-marketed camel milk in Kenya
The study “Strategies and technologies for camel milk preservation and utilization of non-marketed milk in arid and semi-arid areas” (2017, 24pp) by Jackline Ogolla et al was published in the East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal. It explores seasonal fluctuations in yield, consumption and wastage of camel milk, the forms in which it is consumed and […]
Long history of livestock marketing by African pastoralists
Development planners today often want to “link pastoralists to market” so that they will sell more of their animals. The book “Customary commerce: a historical reassessment of pastoral livestock marketing in Africa” (1992, 126pp) by Carol Kerven, published by the Overseas Development Institute (London, UK), challenges the assumptions that pastoralists were isolated from the market […]