This article discusses the enclosure of rangelands and registration of exclusive rights to grazing by individuals or groups of pastoralists. This trend has been increasing greatly over the last twenty years. This occurs because:it is encouraged by governments, planners and multi-lateral donor agencies in an attempt to 'rationalise'the use of rangelands.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1988Kenya, Somalia, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1987
Presents results of studies on the utilization of agricultural by-products as livestock feeds in Africa. Discusses methods of estimating the nutritive value of fibre residues and feed legumes, feed intake and digestibility, prospects of utilizing urea-treated maize stover, agroindustrial by-products and the chemical analysis of feeds.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987
Presents a theoritical outline of the techniques in the use of tritiated water (HTO) which can be used to estimate total body water, body composition, water turnover, milk intake and feed intake. Highlights its potential errors and gives a comprehensive methodology for the use of tritiated water under field conditions.
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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 ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1987Lesotho, Africa, Southern Africa
In recent years governments and donor agencies have devoted considerable resources to efforts to improve the management of communal grazing lands. Range and livestock projects have been designed to address such familiar pastoral problems as endemic overgrazing of rangelands, often leading to permanent degradation of vegetation, soils, and water resources, and reduced livestock productivity, adversely affecting the welfare of rural people.
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