Integration and adoption of climate resilient management practices for enhanced productivity of sheep and goats in pastoral communities of Northern Kenya

Pastoralism

Research, Policy and Practice

Table 6 The relative importance of different traits in both sheep and goats for the pastoral livestock keepers at baseline (2018) and monitoring (2021)

Trait	Year	Isiolo			Marsabit			Turkana
Trait	Year	Weighted score	Index	Rank	Weighted score	Index	Rank	Weighted score	Index	Rank
Age	2018	52	0.2	2	101	0.3	1	38	0.1	4
Age	2021	94	0.3	2	158	0.3	1	266	0.2	1
Breed	2018	51	0.2	3	13	0.0	5	13	0.0	5
Breed	2021	61	0.2	3	72	0.1	5	262	0.2	2
Conformation	2018	50	0.2	4	46	0.1	4	149	0.3	1
Conformation	2021	52	0.1	5	118	0.2	3	258	0.2	4
Nutrition status	2018	40	0.2	5	86	0.3	3	140	0.3	2
Nutrition status	2021	61	0.2	3	115	0.2	4	260	0.2	3
Sex	2018	72	0.3	1	90	0.3	2	92	0.2	3
Sex	2021	107	0.3	1	133	0.2	2	256	0.2	5