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Key Resource 1991/07/01 Integrated Pest Management is an approach which combines different pest control techniques and integrates them into the overall farming system. This study shows the relevance of the IPM approach for African agriculture by giving an account of the rationale and historical development of IPM as...
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1993/01/01 Dryland Farming is written for practising agriculturalists and students, but it will also be of relevance to those working in or studying development, geography, natural resources and rural sociology in drier areas. Although based mainly on examples and experience from Africa, it draws out...
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In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing Afad rican nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase...
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To help developing countries take full advantage of its services, the Investment Centre keeps its administravtive procedures as simply as possible. The easiest way for a Governement to request help is by contacting the FAO country Representative or by writing to the Director of the Investment...
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This review of actual and potential agricultural extension performance highlights the complex interlinkages between agency characteristics, a faulty technological base, the larger bureaucratic environment, and the constraints imposed by increasingly negative "development" trends.
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Foundations for Farming is not just a technology but a well balanced management and technological solution for the agricultural domain, equipping the poor to come out of poverty with what they have.
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A new, interdisciplinary look at the practices and policies of conservation in Africa is presented in this volume. For the first time social scientists, anthropologists, and historians have been brought together with biologists, in order to illuminate previously neglected yet critically important...
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The Next Africa,an Axiom Best Business Book Award winner, will change the way people think about the continent. The old narrative of an Africa disconnected from the global economy, depicted by conflict or corruption, and heavily dependent on outside donors is fading. A wave of transformation...
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2013/01/01 A rare and timely intervention from Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on development in Africa. To many, Africa is the new frontier. As the West lies battered by financial crisis, Africa is seen as offering limitless opportunities for wealth creation in the...
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Vision for a Bright Africa looks into Africa's history to illumine factors that might account for the continent's continuing to lag behind others in development. It examines present attempts both by Africans and the international community to solve Africa's economic environmental, population and...