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Kevin Louis Bardosh
- Name Kevin Louis Bardosh
- Organisation
- School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Edinburgh UK
- K.L.Bardosh@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Pro-poor livestock development,Agro-veterinarian service delivery,Control of neglected zoonotic and tropical diseases,Pro-poor markets,Innovation theory,Livelihood analysis,Political economy
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/african_studies/kevin_louis_bardosh
Inputs, outputs and the business of livestock: negotiating livelihoods and disease control in select areas of Northern Nigeria and Northern Uganda
My work is related to a number of larger developmental/ research projects concerned with controlling zoonotic trypanosomiasis in Uganda (Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness) and bovine trypanosomiasis/brucellosis in Nigeria (Stamp Out Sammore). As a social scientists working with a number of (mainly) veterinarian colleagues, my work looks at the political economy of the livestock sector in northern Nigeria (Kaduna and Jos states) and northern/eastern Uganda (Lira, Apac, Dokolo, Soroti districts). The study is based on a micro-analysis of local livestock value chains, examining the relationships, interactions and processes of negotiation underpinning production, agro-veterinarian services and other technical inputs, zoonotic and animal disease control, livestock markets, and government and donor intensification efforts.Together these negotiations form what I call the ‘business of livestock’. The aim is to offer a multidimensional analysis of how these value chains operate while examining the social factors, networks and larger structural elements that shape and influence them.
This page was published on 27 April 2011