The crop-livestock systems and contributions to the economy: a review of the empirical evidence
1999
Dejene Aredo (Addis Abeba Univ. (Ethiopia)) | Adugna Lemi
At the micro-level, households' farming strategies have received limited attention. At the macro-level, trends in the livestock population and relative contributions of the sub-sectors have received little attention. As a result, a number of important questions have remained unanswered. Do landless households abandon livestock population? What happens to cropping patterns as the holding size declines? How do the demographic characteristics of a household relate to farming strategies? What are the trends in the livestock population? This review has attempted to address these and similar questions using the wealth of data accumulated by CSA over years. Different approaches are employed to simultaneously discuss both the crop and livestock sub-sectors. Micro-level analysis has been combined with macro-level analysis and inter-regional investigations with time series analysis. The study has generated interesting findings and hypotheses relevant to policy formulation and to further research into mixed farming system in Ethiopia.
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