Modelling crop-livestock systems for achieving food security and increasing production efficiencies in the Ethiopian highlands

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-452

  Amede, Tilahun ^a,c   Delve, Robert J ^b  

^a African Highlands Initiative and International Centre for Tropical Agriculture   (Ethiopia)

^b Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Inst of the International Centre for Tropical Agri (TSBF CIAT)   (Kenya)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

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Indexed keywords

ERAGROSTIS TEF; IPOMOEA BATATAS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 53549114496     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479708006741     Document Type: Article

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