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| Ouma, Emily Awuor; Obare, Gideon A.; Staal, Steven J.. |
| This paper uses data from a survey of two hundred and fifty cattle households in three cattle keeping systems; intensive, semi-intensive and extensive systems to estimate the value of non-market, socio-economic benefits of cattle in Kenya. These benefits of cattle keeping are of special importance in developing countries, where financial markets function poorly and opportunities for risk management through formal insurance generally absent. However, when estimating the total contribution of livestock, these non-market functions are often ignored since they are difficult to value, yet they may contribute to a better understanding of livestock production systems. The use of contingent valuation method is employed in this study to elicit these non-market... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; QQ112; QQ118; DD223. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25895 |
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| Ouma, Emily Awuor; Jagwe, John. |
| Smallholder farmers in developing countries need to improve their position in food value chains in order to improve their margins and as a strategy for coping with agricultural food price volatility through innovations within the chains. Value chain mappings and gross margin analysis were employed to assess constraints and opportunities for existing value chains for bananas in Central Africa using market survey data. The results showed weak linkages within the banana value chains with poor integration of value chain actors and minimal involvement with regional markets and high-value domestic chains such as supermarkets. Value addition in terms of agroprocessing was carried out at small scale levels using rudimentary techniques limiting the final product to... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Banana value chains; Smallholder farmers; Central Africa; Collective action; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96169 |
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