Ethiopia has a large livestock population that performs multiple functions and contributes to food security both … reasons, one of the important reason lies in the problems associated with domestic and international marketing of livestock …. Current knowledge on livestock market structure, performance and prices is poor and inadequate for designing policies and …

do not have sufficient funds to meet the demand for livestock credit and cannot mobilize savings from their clients or …

. In places where drought is a major driver of agroecosystem dynamics, as in the extensive livestock grazing systems that … dynamics. We use subjective livestock herd growth expectations data elicited from Boran pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to …

patterns of index-based livestock insurance in southern Ethiopia, focusing in particular on the role of accurate product …

livestock and forest assets including trees. Using panel data, we applied both regression analysis and propensity score matching …. We found no indication that participation in PSNP induces households to disinvest in livestock or trees. In fact …, households that participated in the program increased the number of trees planted, but there was no increase in their livestock …

While Ethiopia is Africa’s largest livestock producer, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers and animal diseases …

This paper presents a case study of how livestock policies are made and implemented in a national context, and how they … can be improved to better serve the interests of the poor. Livestock are extremely important in Ethiopia and could play a … key role in pro-poor development strategy. Livestock are estimated to contribute to the livelihoods of 60-70% of the …