Economic evaluation of smallholder subsistence livestock production: lessons from an Ethiopian goat development program

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Göttingenen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierBarbara Rischkowsky: 0000-0002-0035-471Xen_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(03)00098-3en_US
cg.issn0921-8009en_US
cg.issue3en_US
cg.journalEcological Economicsen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTIONen_US
cg.subject.ilriINDIGENOUS BREEDSen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriGOATSen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENETICSen_US
cg.volume45en_US
dc.contributor.authorAyalew, W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKing, J.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBruns, E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRischkowsky, Barbara A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-13T17:23:13Zen_US
dc.date.available2010-06-13T17:23:13Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/1919en_US
dc.titleEconomic evaluation of smallholder subsistence livestock production: lessons from an Ethiopian goat development programen_US
dcterms.abstractConventional productivity evaluation criteria are inadequate to evaluate subsistence livestock production, because: (1) they fail to capture non-marketable benefits of the livestock; and (2) the core concept of a single limiting input is inappropriate to subsistence production, as multiple limiting inputs (livestock, labour and land) are involved in the production process. As many of the livestock functions as possible (physical and socio-economic) should be aggregated into monetary values and related to the resources used, irrespective of whether these ‘products’ are marketed, home-consumed or maintained for later use. A broad economic evaluation model involving three complementary flock-level productivity indices was applied to evaluate subsistence goat production in eastern Ethiopian highlands. The results showed that indigenous goat flocks generated significantly higher net benefits under improved than under traditional management, which challenges the prevailing notion in countries like Ethiopia that indigenous livestock do not adequately respond to improvements in the level of management. It is then concluded that the evaluation model not only allows a broad aggregation of benefits from subsistence livestock, but also provides a more realistic platform to propose sound improvement interventions.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.available2003-06-11en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAyalew, W., King, J. M., Bruns, E., & Rischkowsky, B. (2003). Economic evaluation of smallholder subsistence livestock production: lessons from an Ethiopian goat development program. Ecological Economics, 45(3), 473–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(03)00098-3en_US
dcterms.extentp. 473-485en_US
dcterms.issued2003-07en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/32885en_US
dcterms.subjectanimal genetic resourcesen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal productionen_US
dcterms.subjectsmall farmsen_US
dcterms.subjectgoatsen_US
dcterms.subjecteconomic analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectgenetic resourcesen_US
dcterms.subjectland racesen_US
dcterms.subjectevaluationen_US
dcterms.subjectsubsistence farmingen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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