Trade-offs for climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods in wildlife conservancies in the Mara ecosystem, Kenya

Claire Bedelian1, Joseph O. Ogutu1
1International Livestock Research Institute, P. O. Box 30709-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

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