Commodity individuation of milk in the Somali Region, Ethiopia

Pearson, Olivia; Schmidt, Matthias

doi:10.1111/area.12359

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“…This brings important experience and skills, but also explains why farmers continue with dairy cattle even where the farm size barely allows for it (see Table 3) and when competitive advantages of other livestock and crops as livelihood options outweigh those of dairy. Until some decades ago, sale of fresh milk and dairy products was subject to taboos (e.g., in L d L c Arsi cluster) that are only gradually losing their impact as milk undergoes commodity individuation [47].…”

Section: Farming System Factors (A)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

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Based on farmer and value chain actor interviews, this comparative study of five emerging dairy clusters elaborates on the upgrading of farming systems, value chains, and context shapes transformations from semi-subsistent to market-oriented dairy farming. The main results show unequal cluster upgrading along two intensification dimensions: dairy feeding system and cash cropping. Intensive dairy is competing with other high-value cash crop options that resource-endowed farmers specialize in, given conducive support service arrangements and context conditions. A large number of drivers and co-dependencies between technical, value chain, and institutional upgrading build up to system jumps. Transformation may take decades when market and context conditions remain sub-optimal. Clusters can be expected to move further along initial intensification pathways, unless actors consciously redirect course. The main theoretical implications for debate about cluster upgrading are that co-dependencies between farming system, market, and context factors determine upgrading outcomes; the implications for the debate about intensification pathways are that they need to consider differences in farmer resource endowments, path dependency, concurrency, and upgrading investments. Sustainability issues for consideration include enabling a larger proportion of resource-poor farmers to participate in markets; enabling private input and service provision models; attention for food safety; and climate smartness.

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Section: Farming System Factors (A)mentioning

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Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

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“…Stronger communication patterns with the female participants’ development agencies will increase the understanding of the current needs of the population, as well as strengthen the understanding of the appropriate ways to engage with the different genders. What should not be forgotten is that the push for modernization in humanitarian and development work through the modernized woman can also result in gender commodification (Pearson & Schmidt, ; O'Reilly, ) or the production of token female members in projects.…”

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Repercussions of institutional governance changes on communication practices in the Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia

Pearson

Schmidt

2018

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Formal and informal institutions guide and shape communities and communication practices worldwide. Colonization, modernization and political transformation processes changed and questioned the role and relevance of informal institutions and strengthened the position of formal institutions. This paper looks at institutional governance transitions and the increasing presence of formal as opposed to informal clan based practices in the pastoralist lowlands of the Afar Region, Ethiopia, by analysing its impact on communication practices. Afar is governed by numerous multi‐scale institutions; a complex network of governmental and traditional, formal and informal bodies at different scales. The region witnessed the devaluation of indigenous and traditional customs, which altered how and with whom pastoralists and agro‐pastoralists communicate. The paper's case study shows that although residents now report their concerns to formal institutional representatives, traditional institutions are still functional. This change allows females to take a more active role in reporting concerns and communicating with authority figures. However, spatial disadvantages are present in this vast and sparsely populated region as those based further away from government representatives are disadvantaged. The relevance for a clear understanding of communication methods on the ground is stressed, in particular for implementing and disseminating programs and policies in this aid‐dependent area.

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“…Research on Somali pastoralists societies by Olivia Pearson and Matthias Schmidt (2018) describes processes whereby milk has become increasingly commodified, giving specific attention to the process by which the sale of milk transitioned from a taboo practice to a key source of monetary income.…”

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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

2021

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This book reexamines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolia's population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance.

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Commodity individuation of milk in the Somali Region, Ethiopia

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

Repercussions of institutional governance changes on communication practices in the Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia

Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

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