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From: Nutritional characterisation of low-income households of Nairobi: socioeconomic, livestock and gender considerations and predictors of malnutrition from a cross-sectional survey

Fig. 3

Total biomass contributed by each of the different species, according to gender of ownership. The Tropical Livestock Units (TLUs) are a common unit to describe livestock numbers across species, through an ‘Exchange Ratio’ whereby different species of different average size can be compared. The TLUs were calculated according to: 1.1 = camel; 1 = oxen, bull; 0.8 = local cow, horses; 0.6 = immature male calves; 0.5 = heifers, donkeys, mules; 0.2 = calves; 0.1 = sheep, goats; 0.01 = poultry

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