The Boran cattle, indigenous to southern Ethiopia, at one time formed the basis of a thriving slaughter stock trade between Ethiopia and East Africa. Ranchers in Kenya buying these cattle as they moved down to urban centers for slaughter found that they were more productive under the adverse envi...
Robinson, Lance W.
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Nganga, Irene N.
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[Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 4-1: Appreciating the Fourth Leg of PRM: Relations with government and customary institutions.]
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Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 4-1: Appreciating the Fourth Leg of PRM: Relations with government and customary institutions.
Robinson, Lance W.
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[Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 3-1: Appreciating the Third Leg of PRM: Using a landscape approach.]
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Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 3-1: Appreciating the Third Leg of PRM: Using a landscape approach.
Map showing potential clusters of villages for joint village land use planning as defined by the Sustainable Rangeland Management project in Mvomero District, Morogoro region, Tanzania.
Kalenzi, Deus
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[Potential clusters for joint village land use planning in Mvomero District, Morogoro Region]
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Potential clusters for joint village land use planning in Mvomero District, Morogoro Region
Kalenzi, Deus
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[Villages with land use plans in Mvomero District, Morogoro region]
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Villages with land use plans in Mvomero District, Morogoro region
More of the land surface of the earth is used for grazing than for any other purpose (FAO 1999, WRI 2000, Asner et al. 2004, Ojima and Chuluun, Chapter 8). Although livestock and wildlife graze in forests and woodlands, we focus here on the lands where most herding peoples and their livestock gra...
Reid, Robin S.
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Galvin, K.A.
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Kruska, R.S.
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[Global significance of extensive grazing lands and pastoral societies: An introduction]
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Global significance of extensive grazing lands and pastoral societies: An introduction
The Amboseli ecosystem is known worldwide as one of Kenya’s “conservation jewels,” and is recognized as a landscape where humans, livestock, and wildlife have co-existed for centuries. However, there is a long-term shift underway, pushed by a transition in human land-use from extensive pastoralis...
BurnSilver, S.B.
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Worden, J.
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Boone, Randall B.
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[Processes of fragmentation in the Amboseli ecosystem, Southern Kajiado district, Kenya]
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Processes of fragmentation in the Amboseli ecosystem, Southern Kajiado district, Kenya
Galvin, K.A.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Boone, Randall B.
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[Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania: fragmentation of a unique region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem]
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Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania: fragmentation of a unique region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Background
Ethiopia has high prevalences of udder health problems including clinical and subclinical mastitis across production systems in different livestock species. Previous studies on udder health problems have largely focused on identification of mastitis causing microbial pathogens and asso...
Amenu, K.
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Szonyi, Barbara
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Grace, Delia
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Wieland, Barbara
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[Important knowledge gaps among pastoralists on causes and treatment of udder health problems in livestock in southern Ethiopia: results of qualitative investigation]
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Important knowledge gaps among pastoralists on causes and treatment of udder health problems in livestock in southern Ethiopia: results of qualitative investigation