Commercialisation of South Africa's Indigenous Goats (Paperback)

In South Africa, the development of non- commercialised goat farmers and entrepreneurs and the transformation of the currently fragmented goat industry into a formal mainstream industry have been constrained by historical, institutional, market, information, and research factors. This book demonstrates that the task of integrating non- commercialised goat producers into a national and international agro-industrial goat industry requires several innovations including knowledge of the indigenous resource, product development, market analysis, provision of collection, transportation and processing infrastructure, and institutional innovations. This analysis should provide useful information for any professional involved in the commercialisation of under-utilised indigenous resources in developed, but especially, developing countries.