Livestock Development In Kenya's Maasailand

Pastoralists' Transition To A Market Economy

Phylo Evangelou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2019
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-02006-4 (ISBN)

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Throughout Subsaharan Africa, traditional pastoral societies are experiencing great change as ecological limitations intensify and national demands for livestock products expand. Focusing on the Maasai society of southern Kenya, Dr. Evangelou examines factors hindering this transition and discusses possibilities for facilitating positive change.

Throughout Subsaharan Africa, traditional pastoral societies are experiencing great change as ecological limitations intensify and national demands for livestock products expand. In light of these pressures, the transition of pastoralists from a principally subsistence way of life to greater involvement in market economies seems inevitable. Focusin

Dr. Phylo Evangelou, an agricultural economist with Robert R. Nathan Associates, is project evaluation economist on the Irrigation Management Systems Project in Egypt and co-editor of Livestock Development in Subsaharan Africa: Constraints, Prospects, Policy (Westview, 1984).

Westview Replica Editions -- Introduction -- Pastoralism and Interventionism -- Governmental Intervention and the Pastoral Transition -- The Maasai Pastoral Economy and Tenurial Change -- Economic Settings of Producer Samples -- Production Costs and Returns of Sampled Units -- Livestock Marketing -- Transition and Development

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-367-02006-8 / 0367020068
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02006-4 / 9780367020064
Zustand	Neuware