Use of livestock feed balance as a potential indicator of sustainability of tropical smallholder mixed farms - Prevailing knowledge gaps: A case study from the Harar highlands of Eastern Ethiopia

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 31-49

  Kassa, Habtemariam ^a   Gibbon, David ^b   Tamir, Berhan ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods   (United Kingdom)

^c HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Livestock feed balance; Smallholder mixed farms; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

LIVESTOCK FARMING; MIXED FARMING; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

ETHIOPIA;

WHITE TIP DIE-BACK PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 0142072522     PISSN: 10440046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J064v22n04_04     Document Type: Article

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