Odessa Centre
The Odessa Centre Ltd. was founded in 2003 in England by two social anthropologists, Carol Kerven and Roy Behnke.
What we do
We specialise in research and consultancy on pastoral peoples of the world, their livestock production and land use systems. Raising domesticated livestock on extensive pastures is one of the oldest human adaptations as a system of provisioning and land use. More than 40% of the earth’s land area is still used as grazing land by peoples from the tropics to the sub-Arctic, including ranchers, nomads and farmers, settled or mobile.
Carol Kerven
Carol Kerven has worked for forty five years as an applied research socio-economist in agricultural and livestock development, since 1975 in sub-Saharan Africa, and since 1995 mostly in former Soviet Central Asia.
Roy Behnke
Roy Behnke has worked on problems of extensive livestock production and rangeland management and tenure for over 40 years.