ILRI medium-term plan 2005–2007: Livestock—A pathway out of poverty
Reports & Research
December, 2007
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6448
The impact of human endeavours on the environment in the struggle to eke out a living through crop and animal agriculture is examined in a holistic context. Analyses focus on all the sources of pressure that modify the vegetation cover of rural Africa, including the effects of fires and burning of biomass, fuel wood extraction and deforestation and land clearing.