Impacts of Prosopis juliflora invasion on livelihoods of pastoral and agro-pastoral households of Dire Dawa Administration, Ethiopia
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عنوان ژورنال: Pastoralism
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2041-7136
DOI: 10.1186/s13570-017-0079-z