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Protecting crops and feeding livestock

Multimedia
December, 2004
Senegal, Western Africa, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
Ansumana Jarjue, Principal Research Officer for agroforestry at NARI in The Gambia explains how agroforestry trees can help livestock farmers.
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Evaluation des ressources forestières mondiales 2005 - Rapport del’atelier revision au niveau régional des rapports nationaux pays d’Afrique francophone

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Seychelles, Angola, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Mali, Burundi, Madagascar, Congo, Chad, Niger, Togo, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
L’atelier régional pour l’Afrique francophone du Programme d’Evaluation des Ressources Forestières mondiales s’est tenu à Dakar du 20 au 23 juillet 2004 à l’hôtel Ngor Diarama, à Dakar. Cet atelier fait suite à celui des Correspondants Nationaux à Rome en novembre 2003, atelier consacré à une session d’information et de formation.
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Global forest resources assessment update 2005 - Proceedings - Sub-regional workshop for national correspondents from anglophone African countries

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Mozambique, South Africa, Gambia, Somalia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Namibia, Finland, Malawi, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
The Global Forest Resources Assessment Update 2005 was specially mandated by the Committee on Forestry (COFO) during its meeting in 2003, where member countries endorsed recommendations from an Expert Consultation held in the Kotka, Finland in 2002 (Kotka IV). For this purpose, all countries have been requested to provide national reports to FAO during 2004. As in previous global assessments, FRA 2005 relies on contributions by countries and a network of National Correspondents to FRA has been established.
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Réforme agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 2004/2

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Angola, Egypt, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Djibouti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Colombia, Indonesia, Cyprus, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Madagascar, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
property rights
land governance
land tenure
land rights
private ownership
forest conservation
land reform
land ownership
The second volume of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives for 2004 comprises eight articles that examine a range of areas central to land tenure activity. They provide a stimulating and, in some cases, critical set of perspectives on how best to tackle some of these issues.
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Building on successes in African agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mali, Kenya
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
property rights
agroforestry systems
fisheries
forestry
forest management plans
land management
rangelands
agriculture
agricultural land management
farmers
natural resources management
agricultural and rural legislation
Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent of all Africans— and nearly 90 percent of the poor—work primarily in agriculture. As consumers, all of Africa’s poor—both urban and rural—count heavily on the efficiency of the continent’s farmers.