The Borana Plateau of Southern Ethiopia: Synthesis of Pastoral Research, Development, and Change, 1980-91David Layne Coppock ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD), 1994 M01 1 - 20 pages |
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... Grain cultivation .... 4.3 Results ... . . 4.3.2 The encampment and the role of cooperative labour 4.3.3 The labour of married women ..106 107 ..107 108 4.3.1 General household structure and economy in average rainfall years .108 .109 ...
... Grain cultivation .... 4.3 Results ... . . 4.3.2 The encampment and the role of cooperative labour 4.3.3 The labour of married women ..106 107 ..107 108 4.3.1 General household structure and economy in average rainfall years .108 .109 ...
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... grain and cattle numbers banked to provide equivalent food security for Borana households of varied wealth during two- or three - year droughts in the southern rangelands . Table 7.16 . Summary of development windows of opportunity that ...
... grain and cattle numbers banked to provide equivalent food security for Borana households of varied wealth during two- or three - year droughts in the southern rangelands . Table 7.16 . Summary of development windows of opportunity that ...
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... grain purchases needed to make up energy defictis for a human population occurring within a 15 475 - km2 area in the southern rangelands during 1982-2006 . Figure 7.3 . Conceptual model of milk production dynamics per cow and per unit ...
... grain purchases needed to make up energy defictis for a human population occurring within a 15 475 - km2 area in the southern rangelands during 1982-2006 . Figure 7.3 . Conceptual model of milk production dynamics per cow and per unit ...
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... grain from the highlands , at favourable terms of trade , to reduce risks of famine and lessen the need to expand cereal cultivation onto fragile upland range soils in the rangelands . A loop of mutual assistance can now be completed ...
... grain from the highlands , at favourable terms of trade , to reduce risks of famine and lessen the need to expand cereal cultivation onto fragile upland range soils in the rangelands . A loop of mutual assistance can now be completed ...
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... grain and used cash sparingly to buy discretionary items such as coffee , shoes or sugar . Their cattle had greater perceived utility as accumulated assets than as a cash crop . People with larger herds have fewer economic risks , are ...
... grain and used cash sparingly to buy discretionary items such as coffee , shoes or sugar . Their cattle had greater perceived utility as accumulated assets than as a cash crop . People with larger herds have fewer economic risks , are ...
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Acacia Acacia tortilis animals annual Arero Assefa Eshete average rainfall Billé Boran Boran cattle Borana Plateau Borana system brevispica butter calf mortality calves camels cattle population cattle productivity constraints Cossins and Upton cowpea cultivation D. L. Coppock dairy marketing density Donaldson drought drought-recovery phase effects encampments Ethiopia Ethiopian highlands forage forra Gabra grain grass grazing growth herbaceous herd owners high-density phase higher highlands Hodgson Holden human population ILCA improved increased intake interventions kalo Kenya labour lactation legumes livestock livestock production long rains Maasai madda maize Menwyelet Atsedu milk offtake milk production Mulugeta Assefa 1990 Negussie Tilahun Nicholson nutritional pastoral systems pastoralists personal communication ponds poor Pratt and Gwynne ranch range regional reported result Section sell semi-arid small ruminants soil SORDU southern rangelands species stocking rates study area system dynamics TLDP traditional unpublished data Vertisols women woody plants Yabelo