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