Market chain analysis of live goats Asaita District, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia Gebremariam Gebrezgabher Gebremedhin and Yemiru Tesfaye Country Report Drylands and pastoralism Keywords: April 2015 Drylands, pastoralism, economic resilience About the authors Partner organisations Gebremariam Gebrezgabher Gebremedhin, Masters’ degree IIED is a policy and action research organisation. We promote candidate, School of Natural Resources and Environmental sustainable development to improve livelihoods and protect Studies, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural the environments on which these livelihoods are built. We Resources, Hawassa University, Wondogenet, Ethiopia specialise in linking local priorities to global challenges. IIED Contact email:
[email protected] is based in London and works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world’s most Yemiru Tesfaye is an assistant professor at Wondo Genet vulnerable people. We work with them to strengthen their voice College of Forestry and Natural Resources in Hawassa in the decision-making arenas that affect them — from village University, Ethiopia. He got his Masters and PhD degrees councils to international conventions. in forest management from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He has been teaching courses on The Feinstein International Center of the Tufts University ‘Forest Management’, ‘Forest Economics’, and ‘Research Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Methods and Scientific Writing’. His research interests include Science and Policy develop and promote operational and ‘Forest Management, Forest Economics, Participatory forest policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives and management and local livelihoods’. livelihoods of people living in crisis-affected and marginalized communities who are impacted by violence, malnutrition, loss Produced by IIED’s Climate Change of assets or forced migration.