Mobility and livestock mortality in communally used pastoral areas: the impact of the 2005-2006 drought on livestock mortality in Maasailand

Pastoralism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nkedianye, David ^a,b   de Leeuw, Jan ^a   Ogutu, Joseph O ^a,c   Said, Mohammed Y ^a   Saidimu, Terra L ^d   Kifugo, Shem C ^a   Kaelo, Dickson S ^a   Reid, Robin S ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; East Africa; fragmentation; improved breeds; livestock mortality; mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975467130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-1-17     Document Type: Article

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