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Sustaining communities, livestock and wildlife

Year of publication 2009

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly the Maasai Steppe and other semi-arid parts of East Africa. This decision support tool, Sustaining communities, livestock and wildlife stems from work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and International Live stock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United Republic of Tanzania on a Global Environmental Fund (GEF)/World Bank project called “Novel forms of livestock and wildlife integration adjacent to protected areas in Africa - Tanzania.”

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