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Cattle are often portrayed as a male affair in Botswana. However, venturing out into the Kalahari countryside to scratch the surface of this state of affairs, another picture emerges. There are in fact many women from different socioeconomic background who own, manage and work with cattle in different ways, and their farming is defined by both the connection to the EU beef market and interlinked local processes of power. Cattle are ever-present in Botswana and play a paramount role in the economy, in politics and in the rural landscape of the country, as well as in many people's cultural identity, kinship relations and everyday routines. I study women's involvement in cattle production in Ghanzi District to think about how peoples' relations to certain livestock species produce, reproduce and challenge established patterns of material and social relations. More specifically I investigate how access and claims to livestock are defined by intersections of gender, ethnicity, race and class within broader contexts associated with the commercialisation of livestock production. The objective of this thesis is to explore how different women are able to benefit from their cattle ownership in terms of their social positions and material welfare in Botswana within the broader political, economic and sociocultural contexts associated with the commercial beef industry. Through ethnographic fieldwork and an intersectional analysis of gendered property relations to grazing land and cattle, I show how women do benefit from both subsistence products and monetary income from cattle sales. An increased need for cash together with the possibility to sell cattle stimulated by Botswana's beef trade with the EU have motivated women to seek control over cattle. There are women who, encouraged by gender equality messages from the Ministry of Gender Affairs, make use of the government's loans and grants designed to facilitate entrepreneurship to start up their own cattle operations and make claims to the cattle market. Many of these women, who have control over their cattle also benefit in terms of social status and a number of those women who engage in cattle production in ways seen as new and different speak of more equal gender relations.

[Extract] Queensland is home to nearly half of Australia's beef cattle, and the vast majority of those beasts contain at least some Brahman blood. As a result the Queensland cattle industry has come to depend on beasts whose origins lie outside Europe and which are better able to cope with the local environment. While today humped cattle are a common sight in Queensland, their adoption took place relatively recently and they were firmly rejected at first. The rise of the Brahman in tropical Queensland dates from the 1960s and occurred only after a concerted campaign on the part of government agricultural researchers. By 2001 that shift was estimated to have benefited the Queensland cattle industry by $8.1 billion.

Introduction; The survey; The economic setting; Number of feedlots and capacity; Forms of ownership; Horizontal integration; Vertical integration; Feedlot inputs and procurement of inputs; Methods of obtaining calves and feeder animals; Geographic sources of calves and feeder animals; Animal quality preferred; Procurement of feed inputs; Feedlot operations and management; Feed processing; Breed preference; Calves; Yearlings or feeders; Feedlot utilization; Number of cattle fed; Custom feeding; Use of futures market; Problems with government regulations; Marketing backgrounded and finished cattle; Conclusions; Literature cited; Acknowledgments; Appendix-Confidential feedlot questions; Research report containing information on the cattle feedlot industry in New Mexico in 1977.

In 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially declared rinderpest eradicated. This cattle virus, which has historically had significant political, economic, and social consequences, is only the second infectious disease to disappear from the face of the planet due to concerted human actions. This paper explores the effects that rinderpest has had historically, chronicles the actions of the Global Rinderpest Eradication Campaign (GREP), and discusses the lessons that GREP can offer for combating other infectious diseases. I argue that rinderpest's unique viral characteristics made eradication particularly feasible, but that GREP's activities offer important lessons for fostering international cooperation on controlling infectious disease outbreaks.

An examination of Sudan's most successful export industry, the Livestock and Meat Marketing Corporation, which is funded by the Sudanese government, Saudi Arabia, the World Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. The question raised is, whether the increasing problems of overgrazing and of acceleration of the spread of deserts in the arid north and west of the country are not bound to ruin part of the country's rural economy. (DÜI-Asd)