Livestock in UK Law
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Livestock library: a dream come true
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the Livestock Library at the Australian Department of Agriculture and Food developed from being a dream to a reality into a virtual library tha...
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Security in the absence of a state: Traditional authority, livestock trading, and maritime piracy in northern Somalia
Without a strong state, how do institutions emerge to limit the impact of one group’s predation on another’s economic activities? Motivated by the case of northern Somalia, we develop a model that ...
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Livestock, Land and Political Power: The 1993 Killings in Burundi
This article examines the characteristics of the victims of the October 1993 massacres in Burundi. Using information on parents of the respondents of a 2002 demographic household survey, the author...
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Diet of the spotted hyena (Curocuta curocuta) in southern Tigray, northern Ethiopia
The diet of spotted hyenas (Curocuta curocuta) was studied in Endrta Woreda, southern Tigray, Ethiopia from September to December 2009. Hyena scats were collected throughout the study period from a...... ... Faecal analysis revealed that the diet of the spotted hyena contains only prey item of domestic livestock. Frequencies of prey remains of donkey, sheep, goat and cattle were highest with sheep being by far the most common prey species. Household survey of ... ...
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How can Public Professional Services be Restored in a Weak State? Options for Animal Health in Congo's South Kivu
Summary How does one deal with a shortcoming in a public service when even a state “pocket of effectiveness” is unlikely to fill it directly? In the Belgian colonial era, South Kivu Province in eas...... ... ROBINSON 3,4 1 Institute of Development Studies, UK 2 Université Catholique de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo 3 International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya 4 Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (F AO), Italy SUMMARY How does one deal with a shortcoming in a ... ...
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Of cattle, farmers, veterinarians and the World Bank: The political economy of veterinary services privatization in Cameroun
This article relates how the World Bank makes reform decisions in a particular economic sector and country. It highlights some of the key issues pertaining to the privatization of livestock veterin...... ... It highlights some of the key issues pertaining to the privatization of livestock veterinary services in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Cameroun. Relating to the economics literature, it argues ... ...
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The EU’s growing pains in negotiating international food standards
This article relates the effectiveness of the European Union’s (EU) effectiveness to its international actorness in negotiations on international food standards taking place in the Codex Alimentari...... ... In the 2009 negotiations on growth promoters for livestock, whose use the EU opposes, the Commission took the lead. It was trusted and supported by the EU Member States, but its dominant role resulted in ... ...
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Risk, insurance and small farm credit in developing countries: A policy proposal
Lending to small farmers is often too risky for commercial banks; consequently extremely high interest rates have to be paid. Agricultural development banks go some way towards solving the problem....... ... The paper proposes a system of compulsory insurance of crops and livestock. The risks and associated costs are quantified for one particular case: the Small Farmer Development Programme administered ... ...
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Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel?
While climate change scenarios for the Sahel vary and are uncertain, the most popularized prediction says there will progressively be drier conditions with more erratic rainfall. According to some,...... ... three structural factors are the main drivers behind these conflicts: agricultural encroachment that obstructed the mobility of herders and livestock, opportunistic behavior of rural actors as a consequence of an increasing political vacuum, and corruption and rent seeking among government ... ...
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‘Carnage by Computer’: The Blackboard Economics of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic
The foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the UK in 2001 had devastating consequences, including the slaughter of millions of animals and huge losses to the rural e...... ... , although appearing to work splendidly in the abstract, showed little sensitivity to the conditions actually prevailing in modern livestock rearing, and as a result their consequences were not merely imperfect but actually pernicious. We reach the sad conclusion that few lessons have been ... ...
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