Indigenous fodder trees can increase grazing accessibility for landless and mobile pastoralists in northern Pakistan

Pastoralism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Inam Ur Rahim, ^a   Maselli, Daniel ^a,b   Rueff, Henri ^c   Wiesmann, Urs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA   (Tajikistan)

^b SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

feed scarcity; fodder trees; landless transhumants; nutritional value; trekking routes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975504449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-1-2     Document Type: Article

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