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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1987
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    Reviews the appropriateness of three major assumptions underlying pastoral development in East Africa, viz, economic irrationality of pastoralists, the unchanged nature of pastoral production systems, and the applicability of western models to pastoral development.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1987
    Lesotho, Africa, Southern Africa

    In recent years governments and donor agencies have devoted considerable resources to efforts to improve the management of communal grazing lands. Range and livestock projects have been designed to address such familiar pastoral problems as endemic overgrazing of rangelands, often leading to permanent degradation of vegetation, soils, and water resources, and reduced livestock productivity, adversely affecting the welfare of rural people.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1987
    Lesotho, Africa, Southern Africa

    The Lesotho cattle industry is characterized by overstocking, range degradation, low marketed offtake, low fertility, and high mortality. The overstocking situation is paradoxically accompanied by an ownership pattern which leaves many households with an insufficient number of cattle for draught purposes, and the abscence of a large commercial beef sector. In this setting a number of analysis have suggested that the increased provision of market outlets would allow Basotho to sell surplus culled animals which would in turn promote reduced stocking and increased productivity.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1987
    France, Benin, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea, Chad, Nepal, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Mexico, India, Sudan, Bhutan, Uganda, Ghana

    The objective of this Soils Bulletin is to promote the use of locally available organic materials to increase soil organic matter content for improvement of soil fertility, and as a sources of plant nutrients in conjunction with mineral fertilizers. This manual is written for all those concerned with the maintenance and improvement of soil fertility, especially under tropical and subtropical conditions. It contains material for use in farmer training.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1987
    India, Tanzania, Italy, Peru, Philippines

    Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises comprise an important, but neglected, part of the forestry and forest industries sector. They process a large part of the raw materials from the forest and supply some of the main markets for forest products, in particular in the rural areas of developing countries.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1987
    Kenya, Sweden, Gabon, Italy, Europe

    In response to government concerns, FAO has begun to develop more information on the nature of small forest enterprises, their contributions to rural incomes, the constraints that hold the small entrepreneur back, and the opportunities that strengthening this sector hold for improved rural incomes. An initial step was the commissioning of a number of case-studies.

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