Livelihood Diversification through Migration among a Pastoral People: Contrasting Case Studies of Maasai in Northern Tanzania.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Human Organization

• Publication date

  2014-11-21

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.17730/HUMO.73.4.VKR10NHR65G18400PMID 25745192PMCID PMC4347807
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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