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Wealth index mapping in the Horn of Africa

Year of publication 2011

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 44

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (series)

Series title FAO Animal Production and Health Working Papers

Series number 4

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Around 2.6 billion people in the developing world are estimated to have to make a living on less than $2 a day and of these, about 1.4 billion are ‘extremely’ poor; surviving on less than $1.25 a day. Nearly three quarters of the extremely poor – that is around 1 billion people – live in rural areas and, despite growing urbanization, more than half of the ‘dollar-poor’ will reside in rural areas until about 2035. Most rural households depend on agriculture as part of their livelihood and livesto ck commonly form an integral part of their production system. On the other hand, to a large extent driven by increasing per capita incomes, the livestock sector has become one of the fastest developing agricultural sub-sectors, exerting substantial pressure on natural resources as well as on traditional production (and marketing) practices. In the face of these opposing forces, guiding livestock sector development on a pathway that balances the interests of low and high income households and reg ions as well as the interest of current and future generations poses a tremendous challenge to policymakers and development practioners. Furthermore, technologies are rapidly changing while at the same time countries are engaging in institutional ‘experiments’ through planned and un-planned restructuring of their livestock and related industries, making it difficult for anyone to keep abreast with current realities. This ‘Working Paper’ Series pulls together into a single series different strand s of work on the wide range of topics covered by the Animal Production and Health Division with the aim of providing ‘fresh’ information on developments in various regions of the globe, some of which is hoped may contribute to foster sustainable and equitable livestock sector development. This paper follows on from a previous FAO study that used remotely sensed and other environmental data to map poverty in Uganda (FAO, 2006) and extends it to the Horn of Africa, incorporating additional environ mental and sociological variables. Furthermore, instead of using a direct measure of poverty, this study investigates the use of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Wealth Index (WI) as a proxy for a regional welfare measure.

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