Jointly published by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University

Summarises the findings of a seroes of case studies in Asia and Africa on demand for quality and safety in animal products, criteria people use in determining quality and safety, and how they value them in the market.

ILRI research shows that African countries’ export trade in live and processed animals is mainly constrained by costs of production and (scale-dependent) transactions between producer and foreign consumer. The impact of animal disease is felt more in terms of low productivity and high...

In this paper, the hypothesis that performance of trading firms depends on their assets (physical, financial, human capital and social capital) and trading practices is tested with data from a sample of 131 live animal traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets. Most traders used own capital...

Published jointly by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University