Pastoralists preferences for cattle traits: Letting them be heard
This paper investigates preferences for cattle traits among a pastoral community in a trypanosomosis prevalent area in Kenya. Choice experiments and mixed logit models are employed to estimate economic values of preferred traits which could be introduced through systematic breeding in breed improvem...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2481 |
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