Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Kenyan Shilling -- U.S. Dollar Exchange Rates, 1972 to 1982; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgments; I. INTRODUCTION; The Problem; Objectives and Approach; Note; II. PASTORALISM AND INTERVENTIONISM; The Pastoral Mode of Production; Population Pressures; Interventionism in Kenya; Pastoral Transition; Conclusions; III. GOVERNMENTAL INTERVENTION AND THE PASTORAL TRANSITION; Pricing and Marketing Policies and a Changing Livestock Industry; Disease, Breeding and Wildlife Interventions; Conclusions
IV. THE MAASAI PASTORAL ECONOMY AND TENURIAL CHANGEMaasai Pastoral Economy; Forms of Tenurial Change; The Group Ranch Problem; Conclusions; Notes; V. ECONOMIC SETTINGS OF PRODUCER SAMPLES; Locations and Selection of Samples and Data Collection; The Kajiado Group Ranch (KGR) Sample; The Kajiado Individual Ranch (KIR) Sample; The Western Narok Producer (WNP) Sample; Conclusions; Notes; VI. PRODUCTION COSTS AND RETURNS OF SAMPLED UNITS; Production Unit Budgets; Production-Marketing Levels and Relationships; Conclusions; Note; VII. LIVESTOCK MARKETING; Assessing Market Performance
Interregional Cattle TradingIntraregional Trading; Conclusions; VIII. TRANSITION AND DEVELOPMENT; Overriding Constraints to Maasailand's Livestock Development; Effective Pastoral Intervention; Summary and General Applicability of the Approach; Note; Bibliography; Index
