This trade depends largely on Borana pastoralists of southern Ethiopia and a credit system of deferred payments. The article asks: How did the deferred payment system contribute to the collapse of the trade? It argues that credit defaults ripple through the entire value chain and help to explain...
Ethiopia has one of the largest livestock populations in Africa. However, the volume of itslivestock and red meat exports is surprisingly low. Increasing the volume of exports hasimportant implications not just for the private sector but also for livelihoods of the poor. This taskis becoming incre...
Further, exploitation of the export market will require an understanding of the market potential in the importing countries including growth in demand, SPS and other quality requirements, rules and regulations governing the market, Ethiopia's competitiveness in the market in relation to alternative ...
In order to bridge this gap, this work is carried out in the major pastoral livestock markets of Ethiopia to empirically investigate formation of livestock market prices in the supply value chain of the meat and live animal export market of the country. The major objective of this paper is ...
Assessment of the Role of Livestock in Ethiopia: A Review , means of income (national and household income), input for crop production (draught power and manure); and export earnings (live animals, meat, skin and hides). The livestock sector contributes much for the Economy of the country....
Human-edible protein from pastoral systems is produced much more efficiently, with protein input/output ratio between 1:4 and 1:21 in India, Sudan, New Zealand, Mongolia, Ethiopia and Kenya, compared with ratio below 1:1 in high external input systems (Steinfield et al., 2010) (Table 1.2...
Of late, however, outbreaks of FMD have been on the increase from 2006 to 2008, 2011 to 2012, to 2014 to 2015 (OIE 2015), even though some of these were in non-European Union (EU) export zones in northern Botswana. In order to realize accruable benefits derived from successful FMD co...
Yield gap analyses to estimate attainable bovine milk yields and evaluate options to increase production in Ethiopia and India Agric. Syst., 155 (2017), pp. 43-51 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Mayberry et al., 2018 D. Mayberry, A. Ash, D. Prestwidge, M. Herrero Closin...
Desta S, Coppock DL:Pastoralism under pressure: Tracking system change in southern Ethiopia.Human Ecology2004,32(4):465–486. ArticleGoogle Scholar Ellis F:Rural livelihoods and diversity in developing countries.Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2000. ...
Desta S, Coppock DL:Pastoralism under pressure: Tracking system change in southern Ethiopia.Human Ecology2004,32(4):465–486. ArticleGoogle Scholar Ellis F:Rural livelihoods and diversity in developing countries.Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2000. ...