RRA Notes 20: Livestock
This special issue of RRA Notes brings together some ‘participatory’ examples of practice and experience in the fields of livestock production and planning with livestock owners.
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April 1994
Guest Editors: Kate Kirsopp-Reed and Fiona Hinchcliffe
Livelihood security encompasses not only access to food and the resources required to produce it in the present, but also those required to maintain production in the future. It also includes the social networks which are necessary for survival in the longer term.
Among vulnerable groups whose livelihoods are under threat are smallholder farmers and pastoralists, for whom livestock plays a significant role in the support of their livelihood and lifestyle.
Among researchers and development practitioners alike, there is recognition that the use of the range of techniques known as PRA involves far more than a series of methodologies for improving the speed or efficacy of data collection.
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Contents
Editorial: PRA and livestock development: some challenges
Cathy Watson and Adrian Cullis
Section A: Methods
A review of PRA methods for livestock research and development
Kate Kirsopp-Reed
Section B: Case Studies: Animal Health
Ethnoveterinary question list
Barbara Grandin and John Young
Planning a community animal health care programme in Afghanistan
Tim Leyland
Seasonal disease incidence in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland
David Hadrill and Haroon Yusuf
Livestock healthcare for Tibetan agro-pastoralists: application of Rapid Rural Appraisal techniques
Claire Heffernan
Evaluation of an animal health improvement programme in Nepal
John Young, Henk-Peter Dijkema, Karen Stoufer, Narayan Ojha, Goma Shrestha and Lava Thapa
Section C: Case Studies: Animal Production
Sheep husbandry among Tzotzil Indians: who learns from whom?
Raul Perezgrovas, Marisela Peralta and Pastor Pedraza
The progeny history data collection technique: a case study from Samburu District, Kenya
Karen Iles
Rapid appraisal techniques: a tool for planning and managing animal health and production development programmes
Mauro Ghirotti
Ranking with Shagaa in Mongolia
Adrian Cullis
Section D: Case Studies: Natural Resource Management
Browse ranking in Zimbabwe
Ian Scoones
Natural resource mapping and seasonal variations and stresses in Mongolia
Robin Mearns, D. Shombodon, G. Narangerel, U. Tuul, A. Enkhamgalan, B. Myagmarzhav, B. Bayanjargal and B. Bekhsuren
Mapping of seasonal migrations in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland
David Hadrill and Haroon Yusuf
Section E: Case studies: Socio-Economic Dimensions
Pastoral production in Mongolia from a gender perspective
Louise Cooper and Narangerel Gelezhamstin
Historical matrices: a method for monitoring changes in seasonal consumption patterns in Mongolia
Louise Cooper and Narangerel Gelezhamstin
Livestock, livelihood and drought: a PRA exercise in Botswana
Neela Mukherjee
Proportional piling in Turkana: a case study
Cathy Watson
Evaluation of a community-based buffalo project in Tamil Nadu
John Devavaram
The problem and solution game
Jeremy Swift and Abdi Noor Umar
Success ranking in Garba Tulla, Kenya
Stella Maranga
Livestock, livelihood and change: the versatility and richness of historical matrices
Karen and Mark Schoonmaker Freudenberger
The application of PRA methods to the study of conflict management in a pastoral society
Michael Bollig
Institution ranking and social mapping in rural Mongolia
Robin Mearns and D. Bayartsogt
Livestock rehabilitation programme in Mozambique
Anabela Braganca