Constraints to cattle production in a semiarid pastoral system in Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1415-1422

  Onono, Joshua Orungo ^a,b   Wieland, Barbara ^c   Rushton, Jonathan ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Livelihoods; Participatory techniques; Pastoralism; Production constraints

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; KENYA; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALE; PREVALENCE;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 84880137328     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-013-0379-2     Document Type: Article

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