Economics of integrated crop and livestock systems in Ethiopia : proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia : 2-3 October 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

At the micro-level, households' fanning strategies have received limited attention. At the macro-level, trends in the livestock population and relative contributions o f the sub-sectors have received little attention. As a result, a number o f important quest ions have remained unanswered. Do landless households abandon livestock population? What happens to cropping patterns as the holding size declines? How do the demographic characteristics o f a household relate to farming strategies? What are the trends in the livestock population? This review has attempted to address these and similar questions using the wealth o f data accumulated by CSA over years. Different approaches are employed to simultaneously discuss both the crop and livestock sub-sectors. Micro-level analysis has been combined with macro-level analysis and inter-regional investigations with lime series analysis. The study has generated interesting findings and hypotheses relevant to policy formulation and to further research into mixed farming system in Ethiopia.