This thesis study, guided by Jorge Céspedes, focuses on the marketing systems in place for livestock products (sheep and cattle), and for sales of by-products. A series of interviews and questionnaires have been applied. The purpose is to understand the marketing process and transactions costs present in this area. A data base for interdisciplinary research will be constructed for further analysis.
The thesis was completed and defense was set for December. We await information on the successful defense but we don't doubt this will happen. The research reviewed the marketing channels for cattle, sheep and hides in San José Llanga. Distribution channels to La Paz for meat were identified, as were the marketing channels for hides. The study looked at the costs of production and marketing for different types of livestock commodities, and briefly reviewed information on credit markets. Some of this information has been integrated in Chapter Four of the synthesis (Activity I) and we hope that Rodriguez and Cespedes will have the time to publish a technical report and an article from this research. Though the project phased out in June of this year completely, we continue to communicate and plan joint articles from this research. Céspedes developed a data base with the data from the economics thesis that we hope to use in further studies.
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