Policies for Livestock Development in the Ethiopian HighlandsThus, reducing population growth, and improving access to markets and credit and extension programmes targeting livestock can enhance the role of livestock in improving food security and reducing poverty, especially in the mixed crop-livestock farming systems as exist in the East African highlands. |
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access to markets adjusted for stratification adoption of improved adult literacy all-weather roads Amhara region animal health services area irrigated availability and quality Befekadu and Berhanu Benin breeds and modern Change in household change in ownership Change in proportion change since 1991 clustering of sample communal grazing lands credit and extension Credit from ACSI crop residues dependent variables Determinants of changes Ethiopia Ethiopian highlands explanatory variables F-statistic farmers formal sources grazing resources Higher rainfall areas households obtaining credit households owning livestock households using animal improvement in access land redistribution livestock subsector M.A. Jabbar modern management practices NGOs ordered probit ordinal indicators ownership of livestock Pender population growth positive impacts prickly pear private pastures proportion of adult proportion of area proportion of grazing proportion of households purchased feed quality of grazing reduced ownership S.K. Ehui Sample mean stall feeding standard errors Table Tigray types of livestock weighting and clustering woreda town