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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Rwanda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksAugust, 2009
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs)
as a means to address an important isurance market failure that leaves many poor and
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
Sheep have multiple roles in the livelihood of resource poor farmers as source of income, meat, skin, manure, strong wool or long hairy fleece, and as buffer resources during crop failures. These important services and products of the sheep production sub-sector justify comprehensive look into the way sheep are marketed, as the services and products are the quality attributes that characterize sheep as such. Nonetheless, very few studies have been conducted so far to identify the determinants of indigenous sheep prices and performance of the marketing system.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksApril, 2009Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
The study was conducted in Goma district of Jimma Zone of Ethiopia with objectives of generating baseline information and identifying challenges and opportunities of small ruminant production and marketing. Results are based on diagnostic survey of 160 sample households, group discussions, monitoring of 36 flocks and rapid appraisal of major sheep and goat markets. The study district was stratified into three groups based on flock distribution as: sheep dominating, goat dominating and mixed flock sites. The average land holding per household was 1.93 ha.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Ethiopia, Kenya, Eastern Africa
The Nile basin experiences wide spread poverty, lack of food and land and water
degradation. Because poverty is linked to access to water for crop, fish and
livestock based livelihoods, improving access to water and increasing agricultural
water productivity can potentially contribute substantially to poverty reduction.
The major goal of the Nile Basin Focal project is to identify high potential
investments that reduce poverty yet reverse trends in land and water
degradation. This is done through the implementation of six interlinked work
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2009Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
PN37 (Increasing Water-Use Efficiency for Food Production through Better Livestock Management -
The Nile River Basin) set out to improve food security, reduce poverty and enhance agroecosystem
health by managing livestock for more effective overall use of water. PN37 responded to water
challenges posed by the CPWF, to the Nile Basin Initiative’s goal of better sharing benefits of water
use, and to global need for the livestock sector to use agricultural water more efficiently and
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2009Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
A flock monitoring study on 60 households as undertaken from October 2008 to September 2009 to measure productive and reproductive performances; determine socioeconomic benefits and husbandry practices; and identify production barriers and suggest intervention options in Alaba Special Woreda. The Woreda was stratified on the basis of sheep and goat densities and the respective sites and households were selected using multistage (purposive and random) sampling techniques. Mean land holding per household was 1.5 ha.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009
The following stories were collected from CPWF project and theme leaders in two rounds. The first round of stories were collected in January 2007 based on the following two questions:
What has been the most significant technical development or advance made by your 1) CPWF project / theme / basin since the start?
What has been the most significant partnership change (significant in terms of making 2) scientific progress and/or developmental impact more likely) that has taken place since the start of your CPWF project (or theme or basin)?
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