Author: Esbern Friis-HansenPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063656
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Seeds for African Peasants
Author: Esbern Friis-HansenPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063656
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Indigenous Knowledge & Development Monitor
Author: Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform
Author: Prosper B. MatondiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780321503
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe's agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.
Cover Crops in West Africa
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 088936852X
Category : Cover crops
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Household Livelihoods in Semi-arid Regions: Options and Constraints
Author: B.M. CampbellPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9798764781
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The study sites. Methods. The wealth index and its variation. Human, financial, physical and natural capital - the essets available to households. Households productive activities - the generation of cash and subsistence gross income. Exploring household strategies. Net income and poverty. Temporal changes in livelihood strategies. Modelling livelihood change. Making a difference.
Farming Systems of the African Savanna
Author: A. KerPublisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889367930
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis
Policies and Governance Structures in Woodlands of Southern Africa
Author: Godwin S. KoweroPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9793361220
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa
Author: Emmanuel N. ChidumayoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136531378
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the continent's population. This unique book brings together scientific knowledge on this topic from East, West, and Southern Africa and describes the relationships between forests, woodlands, people and their livelihoods. Dry forest is defined as vegetation dominated by woody plants, primarily trees, the canopy of which covers more than 10 per cent of the ground surface, occurring in climates with a dry season of three months or more. This broad definition - wider than those used by many authors - incorporates vegetation types commonly termed woodland, shrubland, thicket, savanna, wooded grassland, as well as dry forest in its strict sense. The book provides a comparative analysis of management experiences from the different geographic regions, emphasizing the need to balance the utilization of dry forests and woodland products between current and future human needs. Further, the book explores the techniques and strategies that can be deployed to improve the management of African dry forests and woodlands for the benefit of all, but more importantly, the communities that live off these vegetation formations. Thus, the book lays a foundation for improving the management of dry forests and woodlands for the wide range of products and services they provide.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: World BankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
3. Investing in people.
Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe
Author: Sam MoyoPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This study represents a first systematic effort to document Zimbabwe "s new land uses during the years of economic crisis, the role of the state in promoting them, the differentiation associated with them, not only between black and white farmers, but also among them, and the implications of all these for the political economy of the Zimbabwean land question. The fact that some of the new land uses avoid redistribution of clearly under-utilised large scale commercial farms suggests that the Zimbabwean land question will remain a live political issue for a long time.