In 2014, the USAID project ‘Grazing lands, livestock and climate resilient mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa’ held twoworkshops, hosted by the Colorado State University, which brought together experts from around the world. Two reportsresulted from these workshops, one an assessment of the state of the science, and the other an inventory of related activitiesin the region to date.. In this short communication we summarize the main points of the first report – The state of thescience (Milne and Williams, 2015). A second report is in preparation.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2016.06.001Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2016
Authors
Milne, E.; Aynekulu Betemariam, E.; Bationo, A.; Batjes, N.H.; Boone, R.; Conant, R.; Davies, J.; Hanan, N.; Hoag, D.; Herrick, J.E.; Knausenberger, W.; Neely, C.; Njoka, J.; Ngugi, M.; Parton, B.; Paustian, K.; Reid, R.; Said, M.; Shepherd, K.; Swift, D.; Thornton, P.; Williams, S.; Miller, S.; Nkonya, E.
Language
English
Keywords
grazing, climate change, livestock, livelihoods, mitigation, agricultural land, soil organic carbon, soil, carbon sequestration
