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- Library Collection RecordPoverty in Africa is primarily a rural phenomenon. Its growing incidence is partly due to slow growth in GDP induced by economic policies that discriminated against agriculture. Urban bias in social…Publication Date 1992
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- rural areas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTwo of the Australian acacias that are weeds in South Africa are also exploited commercially and the desirability of exoticAcacia spp. is disputed. This conflict has created problems for the…Publication Date 1991
- Alien invasive species
- Weeds
- socio-economic aspects
- biological control
- invertebrates
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe conventional view of 34;traditional 34; or informal systems of African land rights is that they impede agricultural development, and that land titling or registration is needed to encourage land…Publication Date 1990
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- economics
- land-use
- pastoralism
- soils
- legislation
- management
- stakeholders
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe large human and livestock populations in relation to the land area, coupled with the [`]user-right' land tenure system, makes the land use planning process in the communal lands of Zimbabwe…Publication Date 1990
- management
- land use
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEvidence from Asia suggests that agricultural growth, through a network of consumption and production linkages, can generate sizable income and employment multipliers in the rural nonfarm economy. In…Publication Date 1989
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- rural areas
- Economic Aspects
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper aims, first, to examine critically Kenya's economic, political, and planning systems, since they can be identified as the causal factors producing many of Kenya's environmental…Publication Date 1988
- economics
- politics
- policies
- legislation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany areas of East Africa show signs of misuse of natural resources by man. An improved use of these resources can be made if land use is integrated within the boundaries of a natural ecosystem,…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- pastoralism
- agriculture
- ecosystem ecology
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGross energy and crude protein balances of cattle in traditional systems and ranching in eastern Botswana have been estimated. The calculations show that ranching is more productive on a per animal…Publication Date 1986
- cattle
- plant production
- animal production
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn spite of good rains in 1985, much of Africa is still dependent on food aid and millions of people remain displaced from their homes. The reasons for this situation are not climatically related.…Publication Date 1986
- management
- drought
- degradation
- desertification
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- rehabilitation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA fundamental issue in many LDCs is the degree to which natural resource mismanagement is caused by common property arrangements. This view has led to widespread attempts to "privatize"…Publication Date 1986
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- Sustainable development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Following the severe droughts in the Sahel and Ethiopia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which focused the world's attention on drought and desertification, the United Nations system…Publication Date 1984
- drought
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordArguing that increased attention to the problems of women farmers in Africa can help solve both urban and rural food supply problems, this paper builds its case on a close examination of the…Publication Date 1983
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- upliftment projects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOf all the continents, Africa has the highest proportion of land fit for agriculture. The principal vegetative cover on this land is grass, which, when it is well managed, gives good protection…Publication Date 1971
- grasslands
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- Africa