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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Senegal
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 1991Africa
Women's access to and control of land is an important, even crucial issue because of its relation to and implications for food production and food security in the region. Women in rural Africa often do not own the land they are working. The land generally is registered as belonging to their husbands, who then pass it on to their sons, at least to those who remain in the rural area of origin.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Africa
This document focuses on African compendium of environment statistics. This is the first edition of the African Compendium of Environment Statistics. It is in many ways experimental and covers a limited range of topics but it is intended that future editions will cover a wider range of data and will include more comment and analysis. Environment statistics is a relatively new branch of statistics and very few African countries have yet started systematic data collection or have any statisticians trained in this branch.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa
In agriculture, surveying is required to prepare topographical maps that indicate variations in the level of the land's surface. Topographical maps are necessary as a base for the preparation of research station maps which include layout of field, buildings, roads, and soil conservation measures.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
The first chapter gives a brief description of a pastoral production system, as envisaged by the study team and outlines the multi-disciplinary approach of the study, its sampling design and the data collected. Chapters 2 & 3 describe Kenya's biophysical and socio-economic environments, within which the Maasai livestock production system operates. The biophysical environment of the study site is described in detail in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 describes the social organization of the Maasai and how it affects their use of livestock and grazing resources.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Colombia, South America
Research carried out to evaluate management options and animal production potential of native and improved pastures in savanna regions of tropical America is reviewed, with emphasis on Colombia's Eastern Plains. In areas with limited infrastructure native grasses are the main forage resource and weight gains of cattle grazing these native pastures with burning and mineral supplementation vary from 70 to 90 kg/hd and from 15 to 20 kg/ha.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
This study is part of a larger study on dairy marketing in Ethiopia, and concentrates on the producers'end of the marketing chain. Specifically, the markets of first sale used by dairy producers were identified and the marketing patterns of three categories of dairy producers (intra-urban, peri-urban and peasant) were investigated. The study was carried out on a sample of 173 dairy producers between February and July 1986, using structured questionnaires.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Pakistan, Southern Asia
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