Isabelle Baltenweck

TL;DR: In this paper, the Tobit model revealed small ruminant price, district location of household, household monthly income spent on food, and purchase cost of small-ruminant meat as a proportion of income to be factors influencing the probability of consumer demand for the meat.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how women's time use and decision-making patterns related to dairy income and consumption are associated with dairy intensification, as a way of exploring the links between intensification and nutrition.

TL;DR: Little native germplasm exists within the genotyped populations and mostly European ancestry remains, which is a potential concern for high levels of inbreeding in East African dairy cattle.

TL;DR: For livestock stakeholders to effectively improve the livelihoods of poor livestock-keepers, development strategies for improving the management and/or utilisation of SGR in terms of drought tolerance should not only be tailor made to target regions that are frequently devastated by drought but should also succeed other strategies or efforts that would first lead to the improvement of producers’ economic status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate farmers' perception of technology and its impact on adoption using a case study of legume forages in central Kenya highlands, using participatory techniques, four most important fodder legume attributes to farmers in their adoption decision were identified.