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  1. Library Resource
    January, 1983
    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    This study presents the findings of an agricultural assessment for St. Kitts and Nevis in 1983 funded by USAID.

    It suggests that more intensive use of labour and land could occur if individuals or groups of individuals have more widespread and secure access to government controlled land. The paper recommends that a project be developed that assists several hundred people to become farm operators, through land purchase arrangements or long term land leases, on land that is government controlled.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 1983
    Ecuador

    La sociedad ecuatoriana de los años 80, es sustancialmente diferente a la de los años 50, al igual que los problemas que afronta, sin que ello señale la conformación de una sociedad más justa y libre de las contradiciones de hace dos décadas. Entender los cambios operados en estos años significa entender el proceso de modernización capitalista emprendido y el papel protagónico del Estado.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1983
    Colombia, South America, Central America

    The management of cassava intercropping and its evaluation are described. Multiple cropping systems are defined: consecutive cropping and intercropping (mixed intercropping, row intercropping, strip intercropping, and relay intercropping). Basic biological and nutritional aspects of multiple cropping are analyzed and cassava intercropping systems practiced throughout the world (Latin America, Africa, and Asia) are described.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1983
    Colombia, South America, Central America

    Due to the increasing extension of areas planted to cassava in tropical countries, the maintenance of biological equilibrium through adequate integrated control techniques becomes imperative as well as the collection of data on var. resistance, biological control, and cultural practices. Basic information for integrated pest control is given. Arthropods attacking cassava are described regarding yield losses, biology, morphology, and ecology. Criteria for the establishment of a control program on var.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1983

    Deals with water resource & its exploitation in tropical Africa from an engineering point of view, giving an insight into the wide range of problems in water development & providing general guidelines for future planning. Considers such issues as the mechanics of the hydrological cycle, the origins of wide variations in rainfall, the potential for water resources development in pastoral areas & low cost methods of exploiting these resources, & problems of water quality.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1983
    Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa

    Describes the dif. phases in the ILCA research framework, w. regard to Livestock Systems Research (LSR), particularly the descriptive, diagnostic, design, testing & extension phases, using examples of field research on pastoral & agropastoral systems in the arid & semi arid zones of Mali, Ethiopia and Kenya.

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1983

    Discusses the importance of wealth differences among producers in traditional pastoral production systems, describing a rapid method, dependent on informants, for determining the wealth rank of producers within a given community in order to stratify a population of producers before sampling.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1983

    Discusses the need for identifying sociological and economic possibilities for improvement in pastoral production systems, mentioning the major steps involved, particularly, identification of potential improvements, prediction of their likely impact on net production & quality of life; prediction of the probability of adoption; and assessment of the rapidity with which the improvements will bear fruit.

  9. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1983

    Discusses pastoral systems research (PSR) within the framework of the experience of livestock and pastoral development in Africa during the last 50 years, analyzing data on livestock population & productivity in relation to the welfare of pastoralists; and examines previous efforts in pastoral development relevant to PSR approach.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1983
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Analyzes statistically, results of weighings made on two cattle groups at the Sarite cooperative ranch in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia & used as a fattening area to determine effects of place of origin, herdsmen group and sex (bull or castrate) on initial liveweight, weight gain & performance of animals, their purchase & sales prices and profits realised and calculates optimum liveweights at purchase & sale to maximize profits. Includes recommendations on the basis of the results.

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