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The Relationship Between Collective Action and Intensification of Livestock Production: The Case of Northeastern Burkina Faso

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dc.contributor.author McCarthy, Nancy en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:06:53Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:06:53Z
dc.date.issued 2004 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-08-14 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-08-14 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3622
dc.description.abstract "In this paper, we develop a simple game-theoretic model to explore the relationship between management of common pool resources used as an input in livestock production (common pastures) and the adoption of inputs associated with intensified per animal production (veterinary services, purchased fodder, feed concentrates, etc.). Theoretically, it is shown that better managed pastures should lead to increased adoption of complementary inputs but decrease adoption of substitute inputs; impacts on stock levels, however, are ambiguous. An empirical model is developed and applied to data collected in northeast Burkina Faso in 2000 and 2002. Results indicate that better managed pastures, proxied by community-level cooperative capacity indices, are indeed associated with lower purchases of substitute goods, e.g. purchases of low-value feeds and greater purchases of complementary inputs, e.g. high-quality feeds. However, purchase of vaccines, likely to be a compliment in livestock production, is not associated with cooperative capacity." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries CAPRi Working Paper, no. 34 en_US
dc.subject livestock en_US
dc.subject pastoralism en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject grazing en_US
dc.subject herders en_US
dc.subject collective action en_US
dc.subject game theory en_US
dc.title The Relationship Between Collective Action and Intensification of Livestock Production: The Case of Northeastern Burkina Faso en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Burkina Faso en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Grazing en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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