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Many people were involved in the work
described here. In Nairobi, the key players were Russ Kruska (GeographicaI
Information System [GIS] specialist), Patti
Kristjanson (agricultural economist), Robin Reid (systems
ecologist), Andrew Odero (agricultural economist), Philip Thornton
(agricultural systems analyst), Fred Atieno (GIS specialist), Maren
Radeny (agricultural economist), and Ville Vuorio (geographer), all
of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); and Thomas
Ndegwa (GIS specialist) of Oakar Services Ltd., Nairobi. Norbert
Henninger of the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC,
made enormous inputs to this work.
The poverty data for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were made available by the Poverty Teams of the
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC); particular thanks to
Paul Okwi, Institute of Economics, Makerere University; Servacius
Likwelile, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Godfrey Ndenge,
principal economist, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Nairobi; and
John Kirimi, chief economist, Ministry of Finance and Planning,
Nairobi.
Thanks to Uwe Deichmann, World Bank, for the human
population layers; to Peter Jones, Centro Internacional de
Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), for all the climate surfaces and
helpful comments on initial versions of the production system maps;
to C. Devendra, Lucy Lapar, Danilo Pezo, Federico Holmann, Carlos
Leon-Velarde, Dannie Romney, Bill Thorpe, Steve Staal and Amos Omore
(all ILRI) for comments on the production systems maps and inputs to
the systems descriptions; to Simon Carter, International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)–Montevideo, for input on the irrigated lands
in Latin America; to Willie Wint, Environmental Research Group Oxford (ERGO),
Oxford, for the sheep and goat layers; and to Freddy Nachtergaele,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), for the
global length of growing period (LGP) coverage. A special thank you goes
to Livia Montana, Kiersten Johnson, and Noureddine Abderrahim, from Macro International
Inc., who processed and provided geo-referenced demographic health survey (DHS) data for
East Africa. Apologies to others whom we have neglected to mention through oversight.
We thank John Lynam of the
Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, and Jimmy Smith, co-ordinator of
the Systemwide Livestock Programme (SLP), for initiating and
supporting various aspects of this work in East Africa.
We thank Hank Fitzhugh, former Director General
of ILRI, for his comments and support.
We are most
appreciative of the editing, typesetting and printing services provided by
Sue Hainsworth and Pragati Offset Private Limited, in India.
We thank Rob
O’Meara and Susan MacMillan for their outstanding composites of
sketches from the Tate Gallery, which illustrate the cover and
pages, and Caroline Agola for her initial editing.
Finally, our thanks to
Sarah Holden and the Department for International Development for
the foresight to commission this work and for the resources to carry
it out.
All errors and omissions are the responsibility of the
authors.
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