Is Poverty Driving Borana Herders in Southern Ethiopia to Crop Cultivation?

Human Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 639-649

  Tache, Boku ^a   Oba, Gufu ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crop cultivation; Grain per capita; Grain yields; Livelihood response model (LRM); Poverty; Wealth ranks

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; MODELING; POVERTY; SOIL FERTILITY;

ETHIOPIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78049310246     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-010-9349-8     Document Type: Article

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