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Willingness to Pay for Improved Milk Sensory Characteristics and Assurances in Northern Kenya Using Experimental Auctions
Get PDFPastoralists in northern Kenya may be able to diversify income by selling milk in nearby towns and cities. However, milk sold in open-air markets in communities in northern Kenya is often of low quality in terms of its sensory characteristics. The milk is also often adulterated before sale. These markets are characterized by poor consumers who need to make choices about milk quality with virtually no information other than their own sensory perceptions. These conditions are similar in many parts of the world for many different commodities and products. An examination was undertaken using experimental auctions to determine if consumers in the border town of Moyale, Kenya are willing to pay for enhanced milk sensory characteristics and assurances. The results suggest that even poor consumers are willing to pay for enhanced sensory characteristics and assurances if these can be communicated in a trusted manner. Older, relatively well-informed women are the group most willing to pay the highest prices for milk quality.willingness-to-pay, milk, Kenya, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance, Q10, Q14,
The Quest for Impact: The Transformation of Research from a Traditional to a Participatory Format in Southern Ethiopia
No full textBigger Calves Make Better Cows: Fact or Fantasy in Variable Environments?
No full textExamines the growth performance up to 3 years of calves raised under different treatments including calves with a background of simulated pastoral management and received half of their dams milk, calves received supplements of medium quality lucerne hay, calves given water as nightly supplement, and two control groups with one receiving no supplementary feed or water and the other receiving no supplements and managed traditionally under semi-arid conditions in Ethiopia
Hay making by pastoral women for improved calf management in Ethiopia: Labour requirements, opportunity costs, and feasibility of intervention
No full textStudies labour requirements, opportunity costs, and problems of hay making by pastoral women for households involved in initial extension activities in 1990. It provides a close link of research with extension and reveals wether hay making could be a viable intervention. Includes data for hay making for Boran households and time budgets of activities foregone for three priority persons observed in 62 Boran households involved in hay making
Water and forage development interventions: More benefits to pastoral women or their calves?
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Improving Pastoral Risk Management on East African Rangelands- First Biennial Research and Outreach Workshop (SR/GL-CRSP)
No full textCast Off the Shackles of Academia! Use Participatory Approaches to Tackle Real-World Problems With Underserved Populations
No full text• When scientists or change agents engage other cultures to problem-solve, there is a high risk of miscommunication and project failure.• This process can be further crippled by traditionally rigid, top-down academic approaches that focus investigators on predefined issues lacking relevance to the top-priority concerns of local communities.• Participatory, adaptive methods of public engagement, in contrast, are now being increasingly used in such situations. They help researchers work more effectively by building more authentic partnerships with stakeholders so that real problems and sustainable solutions can be identified.• Such methods can also promote insightful, interdisciplinary science and more effective public service.Keywords: participatory rural appraisal, participatory action research, community-based natural resource management, innovation systems, social–ecological systems, engaged scholarship
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