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Goat restocking and pass on as a critical entry point to help vulnerable farmers

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11099/
 
Title Goat restocking and pass on as a critical entry point to
help vulnerable farmers
 
Creator Homann-Kee Tui, S
Sixpence, C
Quembo, C
 
Subject Livestock
Africa
Mozambique
 
Description In risk prone farming areas like Marara District, goats are a profitable and resilient
source of income. A goat restocking and pass-on approach – providing goats
to extremely poor farmers who would then pass on the goats’ first offspring to
other farmers – was developed, thus enabling the farmers to participate in local
development pathways via goat farming.
Benefits were identified at different levels of participation. Selling goats
enables smallholder farmers with the means to pay for food, education, human
health and farm labor, enabling them to transition to a better livelihood. For
communities, an activity such as restocking strengthens their capacity to respond
to threats (drought, theft) by building a common knowledge base and developing
assets. Stakeholder networks bring goat market partners closer for cost-effective
collection and sale/purchase of goats.
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2018
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11099/1/Goat%20restocking%20and%20pass-on%20as%20a%20critical%20entry%20point%20to%20help%20vulnerable%20farmers_21%20March%202019.pdf
Homann-Kee Tui, S and Sixpence, C and Quembo, C (2018) Goat restocking and pass on as a critical entry point to help vulnerable farmers. Monograph. ICRISAT.