A comparison between urban livestock production strategies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria in West Africa |
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| Authors: | Hamadoun Amadou Luc Hippolyte Dossa Désiré Jean-Pascal Lompo Aisha Abdulkadir Eva Schlecht |
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| Institution: | Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel and Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Steinstr. 19, 37213, Witzenhausen, Germany. |
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| Abstract: | We undertook a comparative analysis of (peri-)urban livestock production strategies across three West African cities. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, livestock-keeping households (HH) were interviewed in Kano/Nigeria (84 HH), Bobo Dioulasso/Burkina Faso (63 HH) and Sikasso/Mali (63 HH). Questions covered livestock species kept, herd sizes and structure, feeds used, manure management, livestock marketing and production constraints. Sheep and goats dominated (p??0.05), but the proportion of HH heads with a long-term experience in UPA activities was higher in Kano and in Bobo Dioulasso than in Sikasso (p?
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