dc.contributor.author | M’Ikiugu, Mutembei H | |
dc.contributor.author | Kilonzi, Emily | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-09T06:32:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-09T06:32:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | M’Ikiugu MH. "Determinants of dairy cattle breed biodiversity in rural traditional smallholder farms: Case of Kibugu in Kenya." Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Science. 2018;12(1):12-21. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.innspub.net/jbes/determinants-dairy-cattle-breed-biodiversity-rural-traditional-smallholder-farms-case-kibugu-kenya/ | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.innspub.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/JBES-Vol-12-No-1-p-12-21.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/103395 | |
dc.description.abstract | The livestock biodiversity suffers a threat from human civilization through abandonment and/or intensification
of agricultural activities. This paper documents dynamism of dairy breed biodiversity and its determinants. Data
was collected by surveying 93 ho
useholds and five key informants using semi
-
structured questionnaires,
interviews and observations. The nonparametric
Data Envelopment Analysis
(DEA)
was used to determine the
dairy practice frontier on breed conservation.
The average farm size was 0.5
-
1 a
cres of land and 53.3% of the
respondents perceived this to be small for dairying but majority (67.8%) still practiced the enterprise despite also
majority (72%) feeling it wasn’t worthy. The 10
-
year dynamism indicated that 19% of the respondents intensifi
ed
on dairying while 13% abandoned the enterprise in favour of other livestock.
In a scale of 1
-
6, dairying was ranked
6 as a source of income, 6 as a symbol of society status and 1 on ease of care for the enterprise. Big
breeds
(Friesian, Ayrshire and Gue
rnsey) were perceived highly (6
-
4) as symbols of beauty and society status while small
breeds (Jersey and crossbreeds) were ranked highly (6
-
5) on ease of care and disease tolerance
.
Intensification
and/or abandonment of the dairy practice as influenced by
societal expectations and/or challenges of farming
were noted to be the main determinants of the dynamisms of the breed biodiversity in Kibugu; intensification
caused a positive externality on breed biodiversity while abandonment caused the negative exter
nality on breed
biodiversity. This serves to
providing evidence to inform policy decisions that support sustainable dairying in
rural areas. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Determinants of dairy cattle breed biodiversity in rural traditional smallholder farms: Case of Kibugu in Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |