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Published on August 5, 2012

This section includes publications on livestock trade and marketing in pastoralist areas, focussing on Ethiopia’s Somali Region.

 

Risk Taking for a Living: Trade and Marketing in the Somali Region of Ethiopia

Abdi Umar with Bob Baulch
Risk Taking for a LivingUN OCHA-PCI, April 2007

Livestock production and trade are the principal economic activities of Ethiopia’s Somali National Regional State (Somali Region). The turnover is surprisingly large. A study commissioned by the UN OCHA Pastoralist Communication Initiative (UN OCHA-PCI) offers new insights into this complex and vibrant trading system, a system which generates significant income and demonstrates extraordinary resilience. Though Somali Region suffers from a poverty-stricken and relief-dependent image, its marketing chains reach into the remotest corners of the country and serve the economic and food security needs of millions: rural and urban, rich and poor.

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Risk Taking for a Living: Livestock Trading in Ethiopia’s Somali Region; A Briefing Paper

Risk Taking for a Living Briefing PaperAbdi Umar with Bob Baulch
UN OCHA-PCI, April 2007

Livestock production and trade are the principal economic activities of Ethiopia’s Somali National Regional State (Somali Region). The turnover is surprisingly large. A study commissined by the UN OCHA Pastoralist Communication Initiative (UN OCHA-PCI) offers new insights into this complex and vibrant trading system. This briefing paper summarises the findings of the research.

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