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Livestock pricing in the northern Kenyan rangelands

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Title Livestock pricing in the northern Kenyan rangelands
 
Creator Barrett, Christopher B.
Chabari, F.
Bailey, D.V.
Little, P.D.
Coppock, D.L.
 
Description This paper uses detailed, transactions-level data and an innovative, structural-heteroskedasticity-in-mean estimation method to identify the determinants of livestock producer prices for pastoralists in the drylands of northern Kenya. The empirical results confirm the importance of animal characteristics, periodic events that predictably shift local demand or supply and, especially, rainfall on the prices pastoralists receive for animals. Price risk premia are consistently negative in these livestock markets. The imposition of quarantines has a sharp negative effect on expected producer prices in the pastoral areas, revealing that Kenya's approach to animal disease control favours wealthier highlands ranchers and consumers at the expense of poorer drylands herders.
 
Date 2010-03-26T12:25:55Z
2010-03-26T12:25:55Z
2003-06-15
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Barrett, C.B.; Chabari, F.; Bailey, D.V.; Little, P.D.; Coppock, D.L. 2003. Livestock pricing in the northern Kenyan rangelands. Journal of African Economies 12(2):127-155.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/928
 
Language en
 
Source Journal of African Economies