Economic evaluation of smallholder subsistence livestock production: lessons from an Ethiopian goat development program.

By W. Ayalew, J. King, E. Bruns, B. Rischkowsky. 2003

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Valuing animal genetic resources: a choice modeling application to indigenous cattle in Kenya (2007, background): “Ayalew et al. (2003) argue that conventional productivity evaluation criteria are inadequate to evaluate subsistence livestock production and have tended to overestimate the benefits of cross-breeding and breed substitution.”
The challenge of conserving indigenous domesticated animals (2003, background): “Ayalew et al. (this issue) and Karugia et al. (2001) make the important point that farmers take advantage of many features of their livestock including meat and dairy sold, but also meat and dairy consumed by the household, manure, and capital.”