Market Economy vs. Risk Management: How Do Nomadic Pastoralists Respond to Increasing Meat Prices?
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer US in Human Ecology on 05 July 2015, available online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10745-015-9758-9 A growing body of evidence shows that for nomadic pastoralists herd accumulation is an efficient strategy for buffer...
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ftniku:oai:niku.brage.unit.no:11250/2501923 2023-05-15T18:06:18+02:00 Market Economy vs. Risk Management: How Do Nomadic Pastoralists Respond to Increasing Meat Prices? Næss, Marius Warg Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen 2015 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2501923 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-015-9758-9 eng eng Springer US Norges forskningsråd: 204174 Norges forskningsråd: 240280 Human Ecology. 2015, 4 (3), 425-438. urn:issn:0300-7839 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2501923 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-015-9758-9 cristin:1256012 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 CC-BY-NC-ND 425-438 43 Human Ecology 3 Risk management reindeer husbandry nomadic pastoralism Norway VDP::Sosialantropologi: 250 VDP::Social anthropology: 250 Journal article Peer reviewed 2015 ftniku https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-015-9758-9 2021-07-20T18:18:56Z This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer US in Human Ecology on 05 July 2015, available online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10745-015-9758-9 A growing body of evidence shows that for nomadic pastoralists herd accumulation is an efficient strategy for buffering environmental variation and maximizes long-term survival. Pastoralists may thus view livestock as investments, or ‘banks on the hoof,’ that work as insurance against unpredictable environmental conditions. This perspective differs from strict market logic where producers are expected to follow the ‘law of supply,’ i.e., that when the price of a product rises suppliers should be willing to offer more of the product for sale. In terms of insurance, increased meat prices may make it possible for pastoralists to slaughter fewer animals for the same financial gain as when prices are low and subsequently convert unslaughtered animals to herd capital. This study investigates to what degree Saami reindeer herders follow a market driven or risk management logic by investigating how slaughter strategies are influenced by increasing meat prices. While slaughter strategies vary regionally in Norway, our results indicate that reindeer herders follow neither risk nor market considerations alone, but rather a combination, and support the general hypothesis that slaughter strategies entail balancing the benefits of increasing herd size against economic gain through meat sales. This has important management implications since current management schemes aiming to reduce the number of reindeer by stimulating slaughter rates through economic subsidies is based on the assumption that herders are meat producers motivated by monetary gains alone. acceptedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper reindeer husbandry saami Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU): Brage Norway Slaughter ENVELOPE(-85.633,-85.633,-78.617,-78.617) Human Ecology 43 3 425 438 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer US in Human Ecology on 05 July 2015, available online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10745-015-9758-9 A growing body of evidence shows that for nomadic pastoralists herd accumulation is an efficient strategy for buffering environmental variation and maximizes long-term survival. Pastoralists may thus view livestock as investments, or ‘banks on the hoof,’ that work as insurance against unpredictable environmental conditions. This perspective differs from strict market logic where producers are expected to follow the ‘law of supply,’ i.e., that when the price of a product rises suppliers should be willing to offer more of the product for sale. In terms of insurance, increased meat prices may make it possible for pastoralists to slaughter fewer animals for the same financial gain as when prices are low and subsequently convert unslaughtered animals to herd capital. This study investigates to what degree Saami reindeer herders follow a market driven or risk management logic by investigating how slaughter strategies are influenced by increasing meat prices. While slaughter strategies vary regionally in Norway, our results indicate that reindeer herders follow neither risk nor market considerations alone, but rather a combination, and support the general hypothesis that slaughter strategies entail balancing the benefits of increasing herd size against economic gain through meat sales. This has important management implications since current management schemes aiming to reduce the number of reindeer by stimulating slaughter rates through economic subsidies is based on the assumption that herders are meat producers motivated by monetary gains alone. acceptedVersion |
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