A growing literature of poverty traps advocates that social protection can be more effective in addressing poverty dynamics if it accounts for a critical threshold, around which both equilibrium outcomes and optimal behavior bifurcate. In this paper, we account for this type of threshold, and ask whether insurance can achieve the goals of social protection. Unlike traditional publicly-provided ...

Abstract In this paper, we use a discrete choice experiment conducted among pastoralists in four different semi-arid counties Kenya characterized by land tenure regimes to analyze how make tradeoffs between security and grazing flexibility – the so-called pastoralist paradox. Results show that there is one group of respondents who are desperate for change seem prefer either or private title dee...

Livestock has been the mainstay of Indian agriculture sector and also a major source of GHGs emissions from the world’s largest livestock population. The milching livestock (including lactating dairy cattle, buffalo and goat) constitutes 21.3% of the country’s livestock. We present a detailed inventory of GHGs emissions from milching livestock (using the recent census and country-specific emiss...

this study is trying to exploitations view point and permanent management problems of rangeland to evaluate in ranches damavand summer rangeland in amol county. statistical society are utilizations 15 ranch that with three methods, collective property, private property and council property from rangeland utilization and randomly from among their number 88 was selected. the research tool was a q...

Abstract The traditional system of producing small ruminants (sheep and goats) contributes significantly to the socioeconomic wellbeing farm households in northern Ghana. Besides serving as an important source income, sheep goats also offer non-pecuniary benefits such provision manure, savings, insurance, portfolio diversification, strong social relations. However, technical evaluation ruminant...

BACKGROUND The management of many pathogens, which are of concern to humans and their livestock, is complicated by the pathogens' ability to cross-infect multiple host species, including wildlife. This has major implications for the management of such diseases, since the dynamics of infection are dependent on the rates of both intra- and inter-specific transmission. However, the difficulty of s...