DETERMINANTS OF LIVE ANIMAL EXPORT IN ETHIOPIA: THE CASE IN ETHIOPIAN SOMALI REGIONAL STATE

Abstract

Despite the critical importance in the live animal export in the Somali Regional state, there are a number of impacts behind between, and beyond the border that directly and indirectly affects the live animal export and food security of a region and performance of this country. This paper attempts to explain and assess empirically the demand and the supply side factors affecting live animal export. It also investigates the official and unofficial cross border Trade that has practiced in the Region since Long. Specifically the study focuses on analyzing the relative importance of the live animal export in economic growth and positive advantage in social and the relationship between the region and other relative region in Somali, Somaliland and Djibouti. The determinants of live animal export in factors that current there is a highly affect in export like infrastructure and drought, famine, lack of nutrition and other things. The methodology I make in this thesis is for description in statistical and secondary data, econometric for analyses and etc. The informal cross border livestock trade advantage of traders not for the society the income of traders and also the seasonality change for affect in the export animal therefore, the overall result reiterates that both supply side and demand side factors are equally important in determining live animal export performance in Somali regional state. The discussion or result part the current export in Ethiopian Somali regional state make a growth time to time and make profit for population or society as well us in infrastructure in market make change but slow the market infrastructure but the informal export is large and make the region unprofitable society only is profitable for exports so the society is need for formal part and also the governmental part is low to take part in market for live animal export