- Proceedings of the workshop Partnerships for Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Afric, held in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, September 11-15, 1998. Sponsored by the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiation, Sasakawa Africa Association, and the Global 2000 Program of the Carter...
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2010-10-01 Report submitted to IITA/SARRNET 34 pages, illustrated
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Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the...
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Key Resource 1996-12-28 Based on the author's widely used earlier text African Farm Management, this account updates the economic analysis of tropical agriculture and broadens its perspective to include examples from all parts of the developing world. Writing in a clear, concise style, Professor Upton explains the...
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In the wake of the recent appalling famine, The Greening of Africa is an indispensable guide to understanding and action for all who care about the world's most threatened continent.
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1996-01-01 2 Copies Most researchers on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa have become pessimistic about future potential after observing the decline of food output per capita over the past two decades. Although the authors of this study identify factors that have resulted in this stagnation, they also...
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This bibliography includes over 1000 items concerning the indigenous knowledge of people in eastern Africa about farming systems, biomass products, natural resources management, land tenure and organization, and related topics. About 200 of the items spcifically refer to methods of elicitation of...
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Key Resource 2013-07-02 Ajulu explores how biblical ethics apply to the escalating challenges presented by entrenched and worsening poverty in communities around the globe. She combines theological reflection and first-hand knowledge of how communities experience the widely varied practices of what is commonly called...
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ADF's first ten years have shown that African grassroots communities can design and implement projects to address their most basic needs for food, water, and jobs and that an agency of the US government can provide assistance directlyto these groups in a manner that is efficient and effective.
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2006-01-01 20 pages, illustrated