ILCA Bulletin No. 31 - July 1988

abomasal abomasum Addis Ababa Africa's livestock subsector alternate ridges annual grass areas average Banamba biomass biomass production Botswana causes of sheep central Mali coenuriasis constraints Cow's milk crop crude death rates dairy Debre Berhan decline disease DM ha-l drought dry season East Africa economic Eragrostis grassland Ethiopia Ethiopian highlands export farm fascioliasis Figure flukes grain yields grazed Haughey herd ILCA's increased intercropping International investment in livestock Kenya kg DM kg ha¹ 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 perinatal mortality planting production/consumption kg/person 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 vetiveria grassland World Bank Zimbabwe zone