Interventions for African pastoral development under adverse production trends | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
December 1988
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
handle:10568/4334
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Reviews the characteristics of African pastoralism. Describes the major technical land institutional interventions along with the reasons why they have proved so difficult. The technical interventions include water development breed improvement, grazing blocks,range management, veterinary campaigns, tick control, fodder banks, grazing cells, abattoirs and introduction of camels & goats, and the institutional interventions include group ranches, parasatal ranches, fattening programs, service centres & barefoot veterinairians, herders' associations, mobile extension units, restocking projects, sedentarization, irrigation and water harvesting.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

International Livestock Centre for Africa

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CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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