Adoption of Crossbred Cow Technologies and Increased Food Security Among Smallholder Dairy Farmers in the East African Highlands

Ahmed, Mohammed Nma; Ehui, Simeon K.; Saleem, Muhammad

doi:10.1300/j144v06n01_14

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“…Growth is largely comprised of a higher demand for meat and milk products by increasingly wealthy countries such as India and China [ 15 ]. The increased demand for products derived from livestock is not however restricted to richer countries, as in some of the poorest communities in the world, production of crops or vegetables are unsustainable, resulting in heavy reliance on milk and meat [ 1 ]. In many of these countries there is an increasing awareness of the benefits to humans of consumption of even very small amounts of protein, especially by the young [ 18 ] and the immunocompromised [ 32 ].…”

Section: Trends In the Industrymentioning

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Changing trends in mastitis

Zadoks

Fitzpatrick

2009

Ir Vet J

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The global dairy industry, the predominant pathogens causing mastitis, our understanding of mastitis pathogens and the host response to intramammary infection are changing rapidly. This paper aims to discuss changes in each of these aspects. Globalisation, energy demands, human population growth and climate change all affect the dairy industry. In many western countries, control programs for contagious mastitis have been in place for decades, resulting in a decrease in occurrence of Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus mastitis and an increase in the relative impact of Streptococcus uberis and Escherichia coli mastitis. In some countries, Klebsiella spp. or Streptococcus dysgalactiae are appearing as important causes of mastitis. Differences between countries in legislation, veterinary and laboratory services and farmers' management practices affect the distribution and impact of mastitis pathogens. For pathogens that have traditionally been categorised as contagious, strain adaptation to human and bovine hosts has been recognised. For pathogens that are often categorised as environmental, strains causing transient and chronic infections are distinguished. The genetic basis underlying host adaptation and mechanisms of infection is being unravelled. Genomic information on pathogens and their hosts and improved knowledge of the host's innate and acquired immune responses to intramammary infections provide opportunities to expand our understanding of bovine mastitis. These developments will undoubtedly contribute to novel approaches to mastitis diagnostics and control.

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Section: Trends In the Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing trends in mastitis

Zadoks

Fitzpatrick

2009

Ir Vet J

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“…That contribution, like the contributions of Ahmed et al. () and Abdulai and Huffman () ignores potentially important information arising in the process of developing conjugate models for countable adoption. Conjugate models have the property that the prior and posterior descriptions of the parameter environment have the same functional form.…”

Section: Motivation Objectives and Modelling Strategymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Evidence from one International‐Livestock‐Research‐Institute experiment (see Holloway and Ehui () for an overview) suggests that the adoption of high‐yielding, intensively‐managed European breeds for purposeful fertilization with grade indigenous stock spawns externality. Generally speaking, evidence (Holloway and Ehui, ; Holloway et al., , ) suggests that crossbreeding is a potent policy option enabling formerly subsistence households to participate in emerging milk markets; has important implications for the food security of small farmers (Ahmed et al., ); and, perhaps more importantly engenders statistically significant income gains from cow ownership (Nicholson et al., ).…”

Section: Motivation Objectives and Modelling Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the objective of understanding, better, the factors contributing to crossbred cow adoption, we compare and contrast the evidence in favor of prototypical count formulations. Despite some notable exceptions (see Abdulai and Huffman, ; Ahmed et al., ; Holloway et al., ), specification choice relevant to countable adoption has been neglected in the agricultural‐economics literature. Considerable scope therefore exists for examining formally the countable adoption process surrounding cross‐bred cow adoption.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: Countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector

Edirisinghe

Holloway

2015

Agricultural Economics

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Considerable specification choice confronts countable adoption investigations and there is need to measure, formally, the evidence in favor of competing formulations. This article presents alternative countable adoption specifications-hitherto neglected in the agricultural-economics literature-and assesses formally their usefulness to practitioners. Reference to the left side of de Finetti's (1937) famous representation theorem motivates Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies and facilitates comparisons with conventional binary-choice specifications. Such comparisons have not previously been considered. The various formulations and the specific techniques are highlighted in an application to crossbred cow adoption in Sri Lanka's small-holder dairy sector.JEL classifications: C11, O33, Q12

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“…In addition, these children consumed more fat/high protein foods, more nutrientdense weaning foods, and nutrient-dense table foods their Expeller-control counterparts. Further, some studies have indicated that market-oriented technologies are significant determinants of income, which has a positive and significant influence on expenditures of food and non-food items [37].…”

Section: Children's Consumption Of Foods Rich In Protein and Fatmentioning

confidence: 99%