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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... lambs , and derive their cash income from sales of dairy products and possibily poultry ( D. L. Coppock , ILCA , personal observation ) . Socio - economic patterns reported elsewhere in Africa support this generally inferior economic ...
... lambs , and derive their cash income from sales of dairy products and possibily poultry ( D. L. Coppock , ILCA , personal observation ) . Socio - economic patterns reported elsewhere in Africa support this generally inferior economic ...
Page 150
... lambs . Sheep and goats may be watered once every five days during the dry season ( Donaldson , 1986 : p 8 ; Cossins and Upton , 1987 : p 208 ) . Belete Dessalegn ( 1985 : pp 41-55 ) noted that goats were corralled about 14 hours per ...
... lambs . Sheep and goats may be watered once every five days during the dry season ( Donaldson , 1986 : p 8 ; Cossins and Upton , 1987 : p 208 ) . Belete Dessalegn ( 1985 : pp 41-55 ) noted that goats were corralled about 14 hours per ...
Page 160
... lambs practised by the Gabra and Borana are similar to many reported for elsewhere in sub - Saharan Africa ( Wilson , 1988 ) . Two notable differences may be the lower likelihood of Boran or Gabra milking sheep compared to goats ...
... lambs practised by the Gabra and Borana are similar to many reported for elsewhere in sub - Saharan Africa ( Wilson , 1988 ) . Two notable differences may be the lower likelihood of Boran or Gabra milking sheep compared to goats ...
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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