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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 1997

    This paper assembles empirical evidence on the nonfarm sector and analyzes policies for affecting future rural development. It reviews trends in trade and services, cottage industries, and small industries, among others. It examines linkages between the nonfarm and farm sectors and between the nonfarm sector and urban enterprises. It also suggests methods governments can use to promote the nonfarm sector in rural areas.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1997
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    This study uses aerial photographs and survey data from sixty four parishes in east-central Uganda to identify the factors affecting conversion of woodlands and traditional grazing areas to agriculture. Regression analysis shows that customary land tenure institutions, greater population pressure and poor access to markets are significant causes of land conversion to agriculture, and hence to loss of trees. Private ownership of converted land promotes greater integration of trees and crops and leads to the highest density of trees on agricultural land.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 1997
    Africa

    During the last 25 years, African policymakers have been bombarded with often conflicting advice on agricultural development strategy from an increasing array of international development agencies. In this brief, Christopher Delgado gives a chronology of agricultural paradigms for Africa. He points out that agricultural development paradigms have gone back and forth between defining agriculture as the engine for growth through cash and export cropping, and emphasizing food production, import substitution, and food self-sufficiency. .

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 1998
    Ghana

    Customary land areas in Western Ghana have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Inherited and temporarily allocated family lands are being transferred to wives and children as inter-vivos gifts, to be planted with cocoa. Giving gifts is a way to circumvent the traditional Akan matrilineal land inheritance system in which land is transferred from a deceased man to his matrilineal relatives but not to his wife and children.

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    questions et options decisionnelles pour 2020

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1997

    D'ici I'an 2020, la degradation des sols pourrait constituer une grave menace mettant en danger la production alimentaire et les moyens d'existence ruraux, notamment dans les regions pauvres et de forte demographie dans Ie monde en developpement. Des mesures appropriees sont exigees pour encourager les investissements pour la mise en valeur et I'amelioration de la gestion des sols afin que les pays en developpement puissent remplir, durablement, les besoins alimentaires de leurs populations.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 1997

    En esta reseña de política alimentaria titulada Financiamiento para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria de los pobres del sector rural: repercusiones en materia de investigación y política, los autores examinan de nuevo la importancia de la política financiera rural para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria de la familia y aliviar la pobreza. Crean un marco conceptual para relacionar el acceso a servicios financieros con la seguridad alimentaria y analizar las comprobaciones empíricas sobre la demanda familiar de esos servicios.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 1998
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The population of Latin America is now largely urban. By 1990, 72 percent of the people of the region were living in cities. By 2020, the urban population could reach 83 percent. With increasing urbanization, the region faces problems of poverty, nutrition, and health that are somewhat different from those when the population was more rural.

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