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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Land degradation is a great threat for the future and it requires great effort and resources to ameliorate. The major causes of land degradation in Ethiopia are the rapid population increase, severe soil loss, deforestation, low vegetative cover and unbalanced crop and livestock production. Inappropriate land-use systems and land-tenure policies enhance desertification and loss of agrobiodiversity. Utilization of dung and crop residues for fuel and other uses disturbs the sustainability of land resources. The supply of inputs such as fertilizer, farm machinery and credits are very low.

  2. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2001

    This documents contains technical information related experiences of people who have struggled ? and sometimes failed - to keep their rights to their land. There are examples from Cameroon, Malawi, Zimbabwe and The Gambia.

  3. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2001

    If a woman loses her husband, she is also at risk, in many countries, of losing the land and property on which her survival depends. Prisca Ngum, a widow in Cameroon, describes her experience, and questions the tradition that widows should have no rights to their late husband?s property.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia

    Proceedings of a workshop held in Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka, 29th March 2001. Presents preliminary findings on malaria patterns and possible risk factors and describes the progress of IWMI research towards developing a risk map for Sri Lanka. It also contains presentations by Regional Malaria Officers, and other officials involved in malaria control, on areas of high malaria risk within their districts.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia

    This working paper contains the proceedings of the workshop on ?Malaria risk mapping in Sri Lanka?implications for its use in control? that was held on May 25, 2001 at IWMI Headquarters in Colombo, which was a follow up to the workshop conducted on March 29, 2001 in Embilipitiya (Klinkenberg 2001). The workshop in Embilipitiya was organized at the local level to discuss the results of the malaria risk mapping work carried out by IWMI in the Uda Walawe region of Sri Lanka.

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