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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Bangladesh, Spain, Madagascar, Guatemala, Tanzania, Ecuador, Congo, Senegal, Thailand

    Los sistemas modernos de distribución de alimentos tienen la tendencia a desarrollarse en ciertas ciudades en desarrollo y en transición económica, pero las formas tradicionales de abastecimiento y de distribución, que en muchos casos son informales, todavía tienen un rol importante porque responden de mejor manera a las necesidades de las familias pobres. Además, desempeñan el papel de generadoras de empleo y de ingresos, así como también de productos, bienes y servicios alimentarios adaptados a las exigencias particulares de los consumidores urbanos.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2018
    Rwanda, Republic of Korea, Benin, Nigeria, United States of America, Philippines, Zambia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Tanzania, Cuba, India, Malawi, Pakistan, Vietnam, Uganda

    Food Systems for an Urbanizing World is a joint report prepared by the World Bank and FAO. It aims to stimulate discussion and suggest pathways to support local and national governments, and civil society and private sector actors in their efforts to improve the performance and capacity of food systems. The report describes the diversity and ever-changing nature of food systems, with interlinked traditional, modern and informal channels that respond to different market segments and different consumer preferences.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Kenya, Nicaragua, Mali, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Ethiopia, Malawi, Africa

    La loi fournit les bases à tous les systèmes de distribution alimentaire et est essentielle pour assurer leur développement. La législation est probablement l’instrument le plus important dont disposent les Etats pour réguler les systèmes de distribution et modifier leur fonctionnement dans le but d’atteindre certains objectifs sociaux souhaitables.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Italy

    At the request and with the support of the Japanese Governament, FAO has compiled experiences of livestock keeping fom different parts of the world, categorized by production systems, to make it easier for interested people to select ideas for their own conditions. This document presents a sample of such technologies intended for livestock keeing in urban and peri-urban areas. It describes the livestock production system in traditional sectors and identifies constraints.

  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.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2014
    Tanzania

    The concept in this paper builds upon basic principles of sustainability to address the problem of how a sustainable project must contribute to economic and social welfare without depleting natural resources, destroying the environment or harming human health.. With this understanding, a systems approach was used in a study that conceptualised a paradigm shift in project management system for sustainability incorporating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Cause-effect Chain and the Socio-economic Resource models.

  7. Library Resource

    Vol 1, No 2: September 2018, Special Issue on Youth and Land Governance

    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2018
    Tanzania

     Population increase influence the dynamics in land market and agitate land access competition, which results into exclusion of some individuals. Inequality is evident in majority of Tanzanians women, youth, children and elderly. It is more prevalence in land markets where rich individuals are favorable to make choices regarding access to land resources. Owing to potential developments, peri-urban areas are becoming places where changes in land uses and activities take place.

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