SMALL RUMINANT CRSP
AGROPASTORAL RESEARCH COMPONENT
BOLIVIA

SR-CRSP/IBTA
TECHNICAL REPORT SERIES
IBTA 165/TECHNICAL REPORT 33/SR-CRSP 31/1995
Corinne Valdivia *
Elizabeth Dunn
Jennifer Sherbourne

Gender, Livestock and Household Peasant Production: Dairy and Diversification in Crop-Livestock Systems of an Andean Community

February 1996

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW

METHODS

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
TABLES

  1. Summary of Case Study Information
  2. Household Labor Allocation by Gender and Age
  3. Sheep and Cattle Herd Dynamics
  4. Production, Uses, Sales and Consumption of Sheep Products
  5. Herd Size, Products, Uses and Income from Cattle Enterprise
  6. Income by Productive Enterprise
  7. Cash and In-kind Income Sources
  8. Absolute and Relative Income Sources Stratified by Sales to PIL
  9. Differences between Dairy and Non-Dairy Producers

Small Ruminant Collaborative
Research Support Program

University of Missouri-Columbia (MU)

 * Corinne Valdivia is Principal Investigator in the SR-CRSP, and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics MU. Dr. Elizabeth Dunn is Assistant Professor in the same department. Jennifer Sherbourne graduated from the University of Missouri with a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics.

Mail should be directed to

C. Valdivia
University of Missouri-Columbia
200 Mumford Hall
Columbia, MO 65211

E-mail: ssvaldiv@muccmail.missouri.edu

A Spanish version of this paper was published in November 1995 by the Instituto Boliviano de Technología Agropecuaria (BTA). The objective of the project was to analyze the economics of peasant households in San José Llanga Community, Province of Aroma, Department of La Paz. A data base on income, resources, and economic activities (on-farm and off-farm) was generated by this project.

This research was carried out as a part of the United States Agency for International Development Title XII Small Ruminant CRSP under grant number DAN-1328-G-00-0046-00. This technical report was reviewed by collaborating scientists in the SR-CRSP and the Instituto Boliviano de Technología Agropecuaria (IBTA).

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