ILCA Bulletin No. 31 - July 1988

abomasal abomasum Addis Ababa Africa's livestock subsector alternate ridges annual grass areas average Banamba biomass biomass production biomass yields Botswana causes of sheep central Mali coenuriasis constraints Cow's milk crude death rates dairy Debre Berhan decline disease drought economic Eragrostis grassland Ethiopia Ethiopian highlands export farm fascioliasis Figure flocks flukes grain yields grazed Haughey herd ILCA's improved increased intercropping International investment in livestock July Kenya kg DM ha-1 kg ha¯¹ lamb losses late dry liver livestock development livestock output livestock production markets meat millet and cowpea millet/cowpea intercrops neonatal losses neonatal mortality Niger floodplain Nigeria Niono Pastoral perennial perinatal mortality rainfall ranches Saharan Africa Sandford scientists seasonal crude death semi-arid sheep mortality soil fertility soil moisture sole millet species sub-Saharan Africa sub-Saharan Africa's livestock Swayback Table tion TLUs vetiveria grassland West Africa World Bank year¯¹ Zimbabwe zone