Pathways for sustainable development of mixed crop livestock systems: Taking a livestock and pro-poor approach

Livestock Science

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 11-21

  Tarawali, Shirley ^a   Herrero, Mario ^b   Descheemaeker, Katrien ^a   Grings, Elaine ^c   Blümmel, Michael ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c ILRI   (Nigeria)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

Author keywords

Crop livestock systems; Environment; Intensification; Livelihoods; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE;

EID: 79957998097     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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