Network Paper No. 26
December 1990
by Ray F. Brokken* and Timothy O. Williams**
* Livestock Economics Division, ILCA, Addis Ababa
** Semi-arid Research Site, ILCA/ICRISAT, BP 12404, Niamey, Niger
ALPAN - AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK
INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTER FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Tel: 61 32 15 - Telex: ADDIS 21207
An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the Founding Workshop of the Cattle Research Network in West and Central Africa, Ibadan, Nigeria, October 1988. The authors wish to thank Senait Seyoum for valuable assistance in the literature search and for editing the manuscript. Thanks are also due to ILCA staff members Stephen Sandford, Addis Anteneh, Peter de Leeuw, Ralph von Kaufmann, William Thorpe, Mohammed Saleem, Bernard Rey, Layne Coppock, and to Steve Vosti of IFPRI. All made valuable comments on earlier drafts and suggested valuable references.
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Economic policies and supporting institutions
Economic policies
Supporting institutions
Salient features of market and demand analysis
Purposes of marketing studies
Some lessons from past livestock marketing studies