Map 11. Livestock production systems in East Africa

Map 11 shows the livestock production systems for East Africa. It uses the same definitions and thresholds applied for the global maps in Section 2. However, the three different agroclimatic regions were defined using higher-resolution (from a 0.5 x 0.5 degree grid to a 0.167 x 0.167 degree one) climatic layers (Jones, 1987). The same thresholds for LGP and average temperatures chosen for the global map were used here.
     In terms of area, the most important livestock production systems in East Africa are the livestock only, rangeland-based arid/semi-arid (LGA) and the mixed rainfed arid/semi-arid (MRA).
      In terms of numbers of people (recalling Map 10), it is the mixed farming systems (humid/subhumid [MRH] and temperate/tropical highland [MRT]) that dominate.

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