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Title: | Avoiding Disaster: Diversification and Risk Management among East African Herders |
Authors: | Little, Peter D. Smith, Kevin Cellarius, Barbara A. Coppock, D. Layne Barrett, Christopher |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Development and Change |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 401-433 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Kenya |
Subjects: | pastoralists household income Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00211 |
Abstract: | Livestock herders of East Africa increasingly pursue non-pastoral income strategies to meet consumption needs and to buttress against risky shocks caused by climatic fluctuation, animal disease, market failure, and insecurity. This article explores processes of livelihood diversification among pastoralists in the rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It first describes a framework for addressing income diversification among pastoralists with reference to current literature and databases. It then presents a case study on pastoral income diversification based on preliminary field research conducted in Kenya and Ethiopia from March 1998 to March 1999. The article finally summarizes current understandings of pastoral diversification while pointing to additional research needs. The appendix contains a table that presents available data according to a group of variables (such as gender, wealth, rainfall) assumed to be important in explaining diversification among herders of different ethnic groups. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |