Project
Climate variability, pastoralism, and commodity chains in Ethiopia and Kenya
Details
Project Code:
CHAINS
Start Date:
2011/12/01
End Date:
2015
CRSP Phase:
Phase 1
Budget:
$79,902
Participants
Lead University:
Emory University
Other Partners:
International Livestock Research Institute, Pwani University College (Kenya); Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
Principal Investigator(s):
Peter Little
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Steve Staal (Co-Principal Investigator); Workneh Negatu (Host-Country Principal Investigator)
Overview
The CHAINS project aims to improve policy impacts on pastoral marketing and commodity chains through evaluation of interactions between climate, market access for pastoral livestock producers, and commodity chains in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Objectives
1. How mobile herders access market chains in remote areas 2. how weather-related risks affect market access and markets themselves which producer scales/groups (including women) benefit from different markets and which do not
Outcomes
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