This brief is an excerpt from the book ‘Bridging the Gender Gap: Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets in Eastern
and Southern Africa’, produced by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with funding from Canada’s
International Development Research Centre (www.idrc.ca). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do
not necessarily reflect the views of ILRI or IDRC. This is one of a series of six briefs on livestock and gender, designed and
produced by WRENmedia (www.wrenmedia.co.uk) for IDRC