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    Maasai socioeconomic conditions: a cross-border comparison

    LSE Research Online, 2002
    This study describes the results of a large-scale household survey of Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania. Data was collected using a standardised questionnaire adapted to a Maasai context and represent the first cross-border directly comparable set of data on current Maasai socio-economic conditions.
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    Network of nomads: negotiating access to health resources among pastoralist women in Chad

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    Health resources among pastoralist groups are strongly gendered and while certain health resources fall within the female domain (e.g.
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    The need and possible modalities of establishment of community based delivery of veterinary services and inputs in the arid and semi arid areas in Kenya

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999
    This article explores how veterinary services should be provided in African Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) areas.The article finds that:veterinary services have traditionally been offered free, with the Government meeting the costs of drugs, service, disease control and surveillance and employment and deployment of personnel.
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    Livestock in development: the changing role of veterinary services

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1996
    This paper reports the results of a survey of Chief Veterinary Officers’ (CVOs) opinions carried at the OIE General Session in May 1995.The article focuses on:their views on a number of key issues related to current policy debates about the delivery of animal health servicesthe nature of service deliverythe main influences on current activitiesthe major clients of State Vete
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    Community-based animal health services in southern Sudan: the experience so far

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    This article reviews the experience of facilitating community-based animal health services (CAHS) in southern Sudan.The article finds that:constraints to such initiatives include insecurity, poor access, lack of mobility, minimal infrastructure and trade, lack of veterinarians and climatic extremescommunity-based animal health services (CAHS) in an under-developed agro-pastoralist c
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    Delivery of animal health services in Eastern Africa

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    The paper describes and discusses the various approaches being used to establish private pastoral veterinary practices.
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    Delivery of Animal Health Services in Eastern Africa: Proceedings of a workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, December 1998

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    The paper examines the sustainability of privatised community animal health services (CAHS) for remote areas in East Africa.
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    Community based animal health services in the greater horn of Africa: an assessment

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    An assessment of two OFDA funded community based animal health worker (CAHW) projects which found that:The sustainability of CAHW development relies on the degree of integrity of financial management of drug inputs and a satisfactory remuneration for the individual CAHW's.Financial transactions through private sector channels without the involvement of committeesor associations were mo
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    Aspects of resource conflict in semi-arid Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    The present century has seen a significant real increase in resource conflict in semi-arid Africa. The most important causes of this are human population increase and the globalisation of the economy. Such conflicts reflect both point resources (mines, farms, reserves) and ecozonal conflicts (water, grazing and hunting rights).
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    The predicament of the peasants in conservation-based development

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
    Issues to be addressed in addressing the predicament of peasants in conservation-based development:how to compensate for the loss of pasture?how to design an integrated approach whereby closure is combined with measures to increase fodder production?how to coordinate closure with other, subsidiary measures so that the costs to the peasants are minimised?how to get beyond

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