A study is conducted to provide information useful to the future development of agro-pastoralists
in the Kolda Region through an economic and socio-cultural analysis of the
practice of stabling. Two main issues are addressed: the generation and distribution of
profits and the factors related to adoption of stabling. A partial budget analysis of three
stable types determined that in each case stabling provides substantial net benefits for farm
households. Analysis of the distribution of costs and benefits suggests that although Sons
and wives provide substantial labor inputs for the practice, it is the household head who
retains control of most of the benefits. Two logit models were used to determine the
factors that contribute to or inhibit adoption of stabling. The variables that were found to
be significant were: the household's herd size, the number of economically active
household members, access to extension information, the education level of the household
head, access to credit and farm size. Interviews with women farmers suggest that women,
especially female heads of households, face considerable constraints to adoption of
stabling due to lack of time, lack of resources and the cultural norms
