Graph 6: showing percentage of families expecting to lose livestock before end of 2011 eat them 6 barter 12 disease 12 starvation 33 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 vii. Barter trading 18% of families reported having bartered in the last few days or weeks, with a further 18% having bartered in the last three months. 9% of families reported having bartered at some stage during 2011. This means that almost half of the families (45%) interviewed have used bartering as a form of exchange this year, with slightly more than half not having done so. Graph 7: showing percentage of families using barter as a survival strategy will barter again this year 36 bartered this year 9 bartered this month 18 bartered this week 18 0 5 10 30 15 20 25 30 35 40