The impact of human endeavours on the environment in the struggle to eke out a living through crop and animal agriculture is examined in a holistic context. Analyses focus on all the sources of pressure that modify the vegetation cover of rural Africa, including the effects of fires and burning o...
Leeuw, P.N. de
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Reid, Robin S.
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[Impact of human activities and livestock on the African environment: An attempt to partition the pressure]
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Impact of human activities and livestock on the African environment: An attempt to partition the pressure
This paper examines how controlling livestock trypanosomiasis, transmitted by tsetse-fly (Glossina spp.), affects the rate and location of agricultural expansion in Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia. Control of the disease will reduce animal mortality, increase productivity per animal and cause livestock po...
Reid, Robin S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kruska, R.L.
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[Livestock disease control and the changing landscapes of south-west Ethiopia]
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Livestock disease control and the changing landscapes of south-west Ethiopia
In southwestern Ethiopia, recent chaotic events, changes in land tenure and introduction of tsetse fly [Glossina tachinoides] control have precipitated changes in the use of land and other natural resources. In turn, these changes have initiated shifts in rangeland biodiversity. Unexpectedly, sma...
Reid, Robin S.
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Wilson, C.J.
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Kruska, R.L.
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[The influence of human use on rangeland biodiversity in Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia, as affected by natural resource use changes and livestock disease control]
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The influence of human use on rangeland biodiversity in Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia, as affected by natural resource use changes and livestock disease control