3.2.2. Livestock Management Practices

Table 4 shows the proportion of households which adopted the different livestock management practices leading to 2017. Selling livestock including destocking was practiced by most of the households (41.3%) followed by use of supplementary feeding (37.7%) and temporary migration of livestock in search of better pastures and water (36.5%). About 33% of the households sought grazing rights from other villages while about 26% bought improved breeds of the same livestock or changed the composition of their livestock. The least practiced measure among the livestock management practices was formation of associations such as grazing associations with only 14.2% of the households reporting adoption of this practice. Fewer households reported receiving livestock through government projects (19%) while others started animal rearing as a diversification of their livelihoods (18.7%).



Significance levels: \* *p* < 0.05, \*\* *p* < 0.01, \*\*\* *p* < 0.001. Source: Household Survey Data, 2017.

Figure 3 below shows that those households which did not adopt any livestock management practice were the majority (30.6%). Of the 69.4% households that adopted at least one of the nine livestock management practices, 13.9% of the households adopted a single livestock management practice while 14.2% of the households which adopted two practices. Households which adopted three of more livestock management practices were 10% or less with only 1.3% of the households adopting all the nine practices identified in the study area.

**Figure 3.** Extent of adoption of livestock management and adaptation measures (n = 310).
