dc.contributor.author | Mburu, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Karanja-Lumumba, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Mwai, A. Okeyo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-03T09:47:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mburu, J., Karanja-Lumumba, T., & Mwai, O. (2008). Determinants of transaction costs in group-based breeding approaches: the case of dairy goats in the eastern Kenyan highlands. In ISAC conference proceedings. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://iasc2008.glos.ac.uk/conference%20papers/papers/M/Mburu_138801.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/44583 | |
dc.description.abstract | Exotic dairy goats were introduced in the eastern Kenyan highlands by FARM-
Africa through a group-based approach about a decad
e ago. Interested farmers
had to organize themselves into legally recognized
farmers’ groups which would
then register with dairy goat breeding stations est
ablished by this international
non-governmental organization. It was only after su
ch a collective action process
that individual farmers accessed Toggenburg bucks (
imported from Europe),
local markets for kids and milk, and dairy goats’ h
usbandry techniques. This
process made local communities incur several catego
ries of transaction costs
whose huge magnitudes hindered some poor farmers fr
om participating in the
dairy goat breeding activities. It is also expected
that transaction costs were
induced by transaction attributes, e.g. asset speci
ficity, bounded rationality, etc.
that are to a large extent dependent on farmers’ so
cio-economic conditions and
farm characteristics. The relevance of these factor
s in determining magnitudes of
transaction costs in group-based small ruminants br
eeding approaches has not
been so far extensively investigated. This is parti
cularly so in the developing
world. Using a case study of 165 randomly selected
farmers in the Kenyan
highlands’ Meru District this paper analyzes determ
inants of transaction costs of
farmers’ participation in dairy goat breeding activ
ities. The paper uses
econometric analyses to generate these factors and
derives important policy
implications that would positively influence future
targeting strategies in dairy
goat breeding programmes in Kenya. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi. | en |
dc.subject | Collective action | en |
dc.subject | Dairy goats | en |
dc.subject | Farmers’ participation | en |
dc.subject | Group-based breeding | en |
dc.subject | Transaction costs | en |
dc.title | Determinants of transaction costs in group-based breeding approaches: the case of dairy goats in the eastern Kenyan highlands | en |
dc.type | Presentation | en |
local.embargo.terms | 6 months | en |
local.embargo.lift | 2013-12-30T09:47:03Z | |
local.publisher | Department of Animal Production | en |