Describes the characteristics of dairy production and processing in South Darfur and provides an analysis of the way in which pastoral families vary their diets according to seasonal food shortages and shifting terms of trade between milk and food grains.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987Sudan, Africa, Northern Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
Examines the relative merits of milk versus meat production by African pastoralists. Discusses the implications for livestock development policy.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987Africa, Eastern Africa
Reviews the appropriateness of three major assumptions underlying pastoral development in East Africa, viz, economic irrationality of pastoralists, the unchanged nature of pastoral production systems, and the applicability of western models to pastoral development.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1987
Discusses the use of forage legumes in the contexts of seasonality of other feeds particularly natural pastures and crop residues, the seasonality in animal movements, the competitiveness for land and labour of forage legumes, and the complementarity of forage legumes with other feeds in smallholder as well as pastoral production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Ends with research implications & recommendations.
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