Day 26: Not much to report from the cultural side, since today I spent the day working on numbers for LIME. The work is going well we are covering a lot of ground; we have started making sense of all the numbers and data we have collected. We have a much better picture of the industry and the various players. We still need to talk to some other players in the industry but this will only confirm some of the information we already have in hand. Is becoming clearer and clear that trader do make money, but also it is clear that the market is totally erratic. The main factors influencing price are rainfall, ceremonies for the various tribes, and expenses that the pastoralists have to sustain such as school fees. Basically pastoralists will sell their cattle when they have to pay for school fees or to celebrate weddings, or when there is no rain and the cattle is at risk of dying. Therefore pastoralists tend to sell the cattle all the same time which causes prices to drop and they make very little money out of it. Furthermore pastoralists see the cattle as status symbol and the more they have the better it is. Unfortunately this causes overgrazing and bad husbandry practices because they do not have enough resources to look after all the cattle. I guess these people need to be educated and this is certainly one of the things that LIME could do, since it would improve the quality of the goods that LIME buys, and therefore in the long run it could fetch higher prices.