Measuring the Contribution of Livestock to Household Livelihoods

Animal Production and Health Division

Measuring the Contribution of Livestock to Household Livelihoods

A Livestock Module for Multi-topic Household Surveys

Year of publication 2011

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

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Language English

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