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Journal Article 2002

The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa

Autor: Turner, M.D. Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.

Improved understandings of the agricultural and range ecologies of semi-arid Africa require better information on the spatiotemporal distribution of domestic livestock across agropastoral landscapes. An empirical GIS-based approach was developed for estimating distributions of herded livestock a...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33034

Investigación en Agricultura

ANIMAL ECOLOGY

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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Turner, M.D. , Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y. , [The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa] , The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa

Journal Article 2004

Livestock related nutrient budgets within village territories in western Niger

Autor: Schlecht, E. Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y. Achard, F. Turner, M.D.

Poor cropland fertility and a rapidly rising demand for food force Sahelian farmers to cultivate more land and shorten fallow periods. This mostly leads to a gradual decline in crop yields per hectare, which can be counterbalanced by the systematic use of livestock manure on cropland. To assess t...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33084

Investigación en Agricultura

MIXED FARMING

ANIMAL PRODUCTION

PLANT PRODUCTION

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Schlecht, E. , Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y. , Achard, F. , Turner, M.D. , [Livestock related nutrient budgets within village territories in western Niger] , Livestock related nutrient budgets within village territories in western Niger

Journal Article 2002

Livestock market dynamics and local vulnerabilities in the Sahel

Autor: Turner, M.D. Williams, Timothy O.

As institutions that facilitate the conversion of livestock to grain and adjust livestock populations to local forage availabilities, livestock markets play important economic and ecological roles in dryland Africa. Using a comprehensive database of 1,580 sales of livestock owned by members of 54...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/29948

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LIVESTOCK

MARKETS

PRICES

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Turner, M.D. , Williams, Timothy O. , [Livestock market dynamics and local vulnerabilities in the Sahel] , Livestock market dynamics and local vulnerabilities in the Sahel

Journal Article 2015-07-29

Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel

Autor: Ayantunde, Augustine A. Turner, M.D. Kalilou, A.

Drought is one of the major climatic hazards impacting on the various sectors including crop and livestock in the West African Sahel. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cro...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/68491

Investigación en Agricultura

CLIMATE CHANGE

LIVESTOCK

PASTORALISM

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Ayantunde, Augustine A. , Turner, M.D. , Kalilou, A. , [Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel] , Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel

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The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa

Livestock related nutrient budgets within village territories in western Niger

Livestock market dynamics and local vulnerabilities in the Sahel

Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel