The goals of the project were to study the interaction between property rights and risk, and the impacts that changes in the external environment have on these systems. To this end, an extensive annotated bibliography was prepared, conceptual and analytical frameworks were developed to analyze the systems, and fieldwork was undertaken in 40 communities in both southwestern Niger and southern Ethiopia. The International Symposium on Property Rights, Risk, and Livestock Development was held in Feldafing, Germany, in September 1998. The specific objectives of the symposium were to review the work undertaken in the course of the project and consider the implications for policy and program design. This volume contains project research findings, invited papers from external experts, and results from discussions from roundtables and working-group sessions held during the symposium.
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