Urban and peri-urban sheep and goat keeping is an important livelihood strategy for urban dwellers, it is usually conducted by retired people and unemployed as a sole or supplemental sources of household income. Most of the sheep and goat owners were lower income families; whose income depended on sale of animals and their products, petty traders, daily laborers, house rent and pension. This book provides means of examining the impact of urban and peri-urban sheep and goat production on food security of urban deweler.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-659-57623-2

ISBN-10:

3659576239

EAN:

9783659576232

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Selamawit Dibaba
Girma Abebe

Number of pages:

152

Published on:

2014-08-05

Category:

Agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fishery, nutrition