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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... higher risks of asset losses , efforts should encourage banking of livestock capital , sales of cattle to fund water development and promotion of improved calf feeding and grazing management . In sum , the development strategy has to be ...
... higher risks of asset losses , efforts should encourage banking of livestock capital , sales of cattle to fund water development and promotion of improved calf feeding and grazing management . In sum , the development strategy has to be ...
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... higher stocking rates , when competition for forage among cattle limits energy intake , the best intervention is destocking that is compensated along the lines of banking livestock capital . Boran cattle show considerable compensatory ...
... higher stocking rates , when competition for forage among cattle limits energy intake , the best intervention is destocking that is compensated along the lines of banking livestock capital . Boran cattle show considerable compensatory ...
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... higher percentage of households heads are women in the peri - urban sector . There is no information on whether a larger percentage of households are now headed by women than in the past or if the roles of women in the society are ...
... higher percentage of households heads are women in the peri - urban sector . There is no information on whether a larger percentage of households are now headed by women than in the past or if the roles of women in the society are ...
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... higher than regulated , domestic livestock prices during the 1980s . Lowland cattle may also provide around 20 % of the draft animals for the highlands , particularly to the east , and smaller numbers are supplied for finishing on crop ...
... higher than regulated , domestic livestock prices during the 1980s . Lowland cattle may also provide around 20 % of the draft animals for the highlands , particularly to the east , and smaller numbers are supplied for finishing on crop ...
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... higher potential productivity than those of the arid zone , with total DM production of 1 to 3 t DM / ha / year ( Cossins and Upton , 1988a ) . Carrying capacities are higher and less variable than in the arid zone . Means range from 14 ...
... higher potential productivity than those of the arid zone , with total DM production of 1 to 3 t DM / ha / year ( Cossins and Upton , 1988a ) . Carrying capacities are higher and less variable than in the arid zone . Means range from 14 ...
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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