In Kajiado District, Kenya, ranches held communally by Maasai are being subdivided into individually owned parcels. Livestock owners know that herds on parcels that are too small cannot be viable, but the decline in the capacity of parcels to support livestock has not been quantified. We used eco...
Boone, Randall B.
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BurnSilver, S.V.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Worden, J.S.
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Galvin, K.A.
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[Quantifying declines in livestock due to land subdivision]
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Quantifying declines in livestock due to land subdivision
Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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Msangi, Siwa
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Wood, S.
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Kruska, R.L.
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Dixon, John A.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Steeg, Jeannette van de
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Freeman, H.A.
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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[An integrated assessment of global changes in crop-livestock systems to 2030: implications for policy development]
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An integrated assessment of global changes in crop-livestock systems to 2030: implications for policy development
Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[An overarching targeting and systems classification framework for identifying development challenges and activities in the megaprograms]
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An overarching targeting and systems classification framework for identifying development challenges and activities in the megaprograms
Milne, Eleanor
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Aynekulu, Ermias
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Bationo, B. André
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Batjes, Niels H.
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Boone, Randall B.
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Conant, Richard T.
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Davies, Jonathan
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Hanan, Niall
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Hoag, Dana
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Herrick, Jeffrey E.
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Knausenberger, Walter
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Neely, Constance
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Njoka, Jesse
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Ngugi, Moffatt
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Parton, Bill
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Paustian, Keith
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Reid, Robin S.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Swift, David
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Williams, Stephen
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Miller, Sue
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Nkonya, Ephraim M.
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[Grazing lands in sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know]
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Grazing lands in sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know
The contemporary concern about anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the environment and the contribution of livestock to this phenomenon have sparked animal scientists’ interest in predicting methane (CH4) emissions by ruminants. We contend that improving the adequacy of mathematica...
Tedeschi, L.O.
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Cavalcanti, L.F.L.
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Fonseca M.A.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[The evolution and evaluation of dairy cattle models for predicting milk production: an agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project (AgMIP) for livestock]
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The evolution and evaluation of dairy cattle models for predicting milk production: an agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project (AgMIP) for livestock
Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems]
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems
The livestock and environment nexus has been the subject of considerable research in the past decade. With a more prosperous and urbanized population projected to grow significantly in the coming decades comes a gargantuan appetite for livestock products. There is growing concern about how to acc...
Herrero, Mario T.
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Wirsenius, S.
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Henderson, Benjamin B.
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Rigolot, Cyrille
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Havlík, Petr
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Boer, Imke J.M. de
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Gerber, Pierre J.
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[Livestock and the environment: What have we learned in the past decade?]
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Livestock and the environment: What have we learned in the past decade?
This study which is commissioned by DFID (Department for International Development) in 2001 is conducted to produce sets of maps locating significant populations of poor livestock keepers in the world, and to assess in very broad terms how these populations are likely to change over the next thre...
This paper looks briefly at ecoregional research: what is commonly meant by the term and how it may be carried out. ILRI's involvement in various ecoregional consortia is discussed, together with problems and constraints that have been faced to date. The paper ends by listing a number of issues t...