D. Layne Coppock,^* Seyoum Tezera,^* Solomon Desta,^* Mark Mutinda,^* Stellamaris Muthoka,^* Getachew Gebru,^* Abdillahi Aboud,^* Azeb Yonas<sup>*


*</sup>Authors are Professor, Department of Environment & Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA, Layne.Coppock@usu.edu (Coppock); Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya (Aboud); pastoral development consultants (Tezera, Desta, and Gebru) formerly associated with Utah State University, but now at Managing Risk for Improved Livelihoods (MARIL PLC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; lecturers, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya (Mutinda and Muthoka); and a former PARIMA staff assistant, but now at MARIL PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Yonas). This publication was made possible through support provided to the Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) project under the auspices of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (GL-CRSP) by the Office of Agriculture, Bureau of Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of Grant PCE-G-0098-00036-00 to the University of California, Davis. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID.