Risky Trade, Resilient Traders
Trust and Livestock Marketing in Northern Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24277042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 561-581 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e0001972008000442 |
| OpenAlex | W2007984162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines innovations in livestock marketing that livestock traders in northern Kenya use to overcome a host of trading obstacles. Livestock trading in northern Kenya is one of the toughest and most risk-prone jobs in the region, yet livestock traders have been able not only to transform the ways in which trading is conducted through ‘home-made’ innovations, but also to mitigate trading risks. The article demonstrates how livestock traders have become resilient to risks and have been able to succeed in a trade that in the past many have had to abandon. Trust embedded in social networks and relations reinforces the adoption of risk-minimizing strategies. The article focuses on the broad field of pastoral risk management to illustrate how an innovative risk management strategy can be used to create a successful business entrepreneurship in a risk-prone environment. I draw on fieldwork conducted during 2001–2 among cattle traders in Moyale District of northern Kenya and Nairobi, and on recent work among Somali livestock traders-cum-ranchers in Garissa District of North Eastern and Coast provinces.
cattle trading · Entrepreneurship · livestock marketing · livestock traders · northern Kenya · ranching · risk minimization strategies · Social networks · Trust · Agricultural risk and resilience · Livestock Farming and Management · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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| Citations per year | 1.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |