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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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World Bank Technical Paper Number 170 Africa Technical Department Series The study was part of a program of research into the future directions of livestock production, agricultural development, and resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa, carried out by the AgricultureDivision of the World...
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This study identifies and examines small farm commercialization activities and pathways in the forest and transitional zones of Ghana, drawing on some experiences from the savannah zone as well. The effects of small farm commercialization on gender roles and relationships, as well as on...
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1998-01-01 Publication of the Sustainable3 Agriculture Network Handbook series Book 3 212 pages, illustrated
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The Unsettling of America is Wendell Berry's probing and personal inquiry into the way in which we use the land that sustains us, and an expression of profound awareness that farming cannot be considered separately from the larger culture. His provocative suggestions for change are by turns...
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A beginning text presenting current knowledge of the economic principles of agricultural development. Designed for a first year course in agricultural development. Presents an integrated theory for less developed nations.
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The shrimp industry of southern Honuras is located on the coastal plain of the Gulf of Fonseca. The quantity and quality of water supplying the shrimp ponds is primarily dependent upon the rainfall and land management in the steeplands which rise up from the plain beginning about 40 km from the...
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This volume is comprised of 36 case studywrite-ups of the rural development projects studied, a complement to the analysis in Volume I.
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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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Making value chains more inclusive enables smallholder farmers to access markets that have previously been denied to them. To achieve this requires, among others, the right environment for growth, both domestically and for international trade, improved information flows, including through the use...