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How community initiatives are making a difference in goat farmers’ lives in Central Mozambique

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Title How community initiatives are making a difference in goat farmers’ lives in Central Mozambique
 
Creator Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
Sixpence, C.
Quembo, C.
 
Subject goats
smallholder
farmers
livestock
livelihood
 
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
 
Date 2019
2019-08-02T16:33:50Z
2019-08-02T16:33:50Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Homann-Kee Tui, S.; Sixpence, C.; Quembo, C. 2019. How community initiatives are making a difference in goat farmers’ lives in Central Mozambique. ICRISAT. http://oar.icrisat.org/11099/
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102426
Land and Water Solutions
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; Non-commercial use only
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf