Grazing lands in Sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know

Environmental Development

Volumn 19, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-74

  Milne, Eleanor ^a   Aynekulu, Ermias ^c   Bationo, Andre ^b   Batjes, Niels H ^d   Boone, Randall ^a   Conant, Rich ^a   Davies, Jonathan ^b   Hanan, Niall ^e   Hoag, Dana ^a   Herrick, Jeffrey E ^f   Knausenberger, Walter ^b   Neely, Constance ^c,g   Njoka, Jesse ^h   Ngugi, Moffatt ^b   Parton, Bill ^a   Paustian, Keith ^a   Reid, Robin ^a   Said, Mohamed ^h   Shepherd, Keith ^c   Swift, David ^a   Thornton, Philip ^h   Williams, Stephen ^a   Miller, Sue ^a   Nkonya, Ephraim ^b   more..

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b USAID ^*  (Italy)

^c SD6 United Nations Avenue   (Kenya)

^d ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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EID: 84991383890     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2016.06.001     Document Type: Article

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