Smallholder dairy systems in the Kenya highlands: breed preferences and breeding practices

By B. Bebe, H. Udo, G. Rowlands, W. Thorpe. 2003

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Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development (2011, background): “Farmers believe that by producing milk they can improve substantially their income and educate their children (Bebe et al., 2003).”
Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models (2014, background): “A general model of agricultural intensification originated with Boserup (1965), who described it as an endogenous process responding to increased population pressure.”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, result): “In general, these results correspond to published findings (Bebe et al., 2003; Maltsoglou and Rapsomanikis, 2005; Maltosglou and Taniguchi, 2004; Nanyeenya et al., 2008), albeit ones that are representative of only mixed crop-livestock production systems.”
Conservation agriculture in African mixed crop-livestock systems: Expanding the niche (2014, background): “For example, when shifting from milk production for self-consumption to milk production for the market, dairy producers of the Kenyan highlands tend to shift from East African Zebu breeds to high-yielding breeds such as Friesian and Ayrshire (Bebe et al., 2003).”