The complex and gender differentiated objectives of livestock keeping for Somali pastoralists

This study describes the livestock keeping objectives of female and male Somalia pastoralists, for camel, sheep, goat and donkey. The objectives were assessed using a matrix scoring approach, implemented during participatory rural appraisals conducted in 20 settlements in northwestern Somalia, invol...

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Autores principales: Marshall, Karen, Mtimet, Nadhem, Wanyoike, Francis N., Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: American Society of Animal Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72813
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author Marshall, Karen
Mtimet, Nadhem
Wanyoike, Francis N.
Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
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description This study describes the livestock keeping objectives of female and male Somalia pastoralists, for camel, sheep, goat and donkey. The objectives were assessed using a matrix scoring approach, implemented during participatory rural appraisals conducted in 20 settlements in northwestern Somalia, involving 254 female and 252 male participants. All species were kept for multiple objectives (up to 14), with the most important objectives including domestic milk consumption and milk sale, income from the sale of slaughter as well as breeding animals, savings and insurance, domestic meat consumption, transport / loads, drawing water from wells, ceremony / dowry, and hide use. There were strong gender differences in the scoring of objectives, notably with ‘savings and insurance’ and ‘sale of breeding animals’ being more important to female and male pastoralists, respectively. This work is part of a larger project aimed at pro-poor livestock development in Somalia.
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spelling CGSpace728132025-08-18T06:30:15Z The complex and gender differentiated objectives of livestock keeping for Somali pastoralists Marshall, Karen Mtimet, Nadhem Wanyoike, Francis N. Ndiwa, Nicholas N. livestock pastoralism gender This study describes the livestock keeping objectives of female and male Somalia pastoralists, for camel, sheep, goat and donkey. The objectives were assessed using a matrix scoring approach, implemented during participatory rural appraisals conducted in 20 settlements in northwestern Somalia, involving 254 female and 252 male participants. All species were kept for multiple objectives (up to 14), with the most important objectives including domestic milk consumption and milk sale, income from the sale of slaughter as well as breeding animals, savings and insurance, domestic meat consumption, transport / loads, drawing water from wells, ceremony / dowry, and hide use. There were strong gender differences in the scoring of objectives, notably with ‘savings and insurance’ and ‘sale of breeding animals’ being more important to female and male pastoralists, respectively. This work is part of a larger project aimed at pro-poor livestock development in Somalia. 2014-08-17 2016-04-06T11:38:04Z 2016-04-06T11:38:04Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72813 en Open Access application/pdf application/pdf American Society of Animal Science Marshall, K., Mtimet, N., Wanyoike, F. and Ndiwa, N. 2014. The complex and gender differentiated objectives of livestock keeping for Somali pastoralists. IN: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Vancouver, Canada, 17-22 August 2014. Champaign, USA: American Society of Animal Science
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Wanyoike, Francis N.
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title_short The complex and gender differentiated objectives of livestock keeping for Somali pastoralists
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pastoralism
gender
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