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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2009Sudan, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2002Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
This paper presents a method for stratifying villages into Development domains using multivariate analysis of a broad community-based survey. The results from the analysis are used to draw conclusions in terms of policy implications. Topics of discussion include Development domains and policy implications. The paper ends with comment by Samuel Benin.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008Zimbabwe, Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsAugust, 2006Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2015Ethiopia
Although there has been a considerable effort to reduce soil erosion and improve land productivity in Ethiopia, farmers’ investments in SWC remain limited. There is a long and rich tradition of empirical research that seeks to identify the determinants that affect farmers’ investments in SWC practices. Nevertheless, the results regarding these determinants have been inconsistent and scattered. Moreover, the impacts of different SWC practices have not been reviewed and synthesized.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1983Kenya, 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.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1988Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
Several traditional methods of maintaining soil fertility in bean-based cropping systems are reviewed as follows: visoso, large- scale chitemene, ngoro or matengo pit (Mbinga District, Tanzania), mambwe land-use system of northern Zambia (fundikila), mounds of the Wafipas (SW Tanzania), tumba land-use system (southern Tanzania), guie (central highlands of Ethiopia), mafuku in Zaire, termite mounds, agroforestry, relay intercropping systems, coffee- banana-bean cropping system of the Wahayas of Bukoba (Tanzania), removal of maize tassels (northern Malawi), and storage of nutrients in weeds (
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2007Zimbabwe, Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1986Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
Discusses the results of the measurement of environmental changes in grazed ecosystems with reference to correlated changes in livestock management in Kenya; includes techniques used to measure the changes, and proposed methods; presents data on a case study at a group ranch located in western Kenya which covers 50,000 ha.; ends with comparison of surveys, i.e., that of 1978 and 1981.
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