Harnessing pastoralists' indigenous knowledge for rangeland management: three African case studies

Pastoralism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oba, Gufu ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

anthropogenic indicators; ecological indicators; indigenous knowledge; landscape grazing potential; rangeland management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975470851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-2-1     Document Type: Article

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