Livestock Development In Kenya's Maasailand: Pastoralists' Transition To A Market Economy / Edition 1

by Phylo Evangelou

Overview

Focusing on livestock development in the Maasai society of southern Kenya, this book examines factors hindering the transition of pastoralists from a principally subsistence way of life to greater involvement in market economies and discusses possibilities for facilitating positive change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367169930
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/09/2020
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Pastoralism and Interventionism 3. Governmental Intervention and the Pastoral Tranisition 4. The Maasai Pastoral Economy and Tenurial Change 5. Economic Settings of Producer Samples 6. Production Costs and Returns of Sampled Units 7. Livestock Marketing 8. Transition and Development