Transhumance in the Tigray Highlands (Ethiopia)
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Child malnutrition in Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Mountain Research and Development
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0276-4741,1994-7151
DOI: 10.1659/mrd.00033