Initially hailed a huge success, Malawi’s effort to boost agriculture with fertiliser subsidies appears to have met with failure. The author has a look at what went wrong, arguing that developments must be assessed against the backdrop of politics.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2013Malawi
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1983Nepal, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Papua Nueva Guinea
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014Eslovenia, Francia, Bangladesh, Eslovaquia, Estados Unidos de América, Mozambique, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canadá, Guinea, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Filipinas, Libia, España, India, Rusia, Nueva Zelandia, Brasil
The agricultural economics literature provides various estimates of the number of farms and small farms in the world. This paper is an effort to provide a more complete and up to date as well as carefully documented estimate of the total number of farms in the world, as well as by region and level of income. It uses data from numerous rounds of the World Census of Agriculture, the only dataset available which allows the user to gain a complete picture of the total number of farms globally and at the country level.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2000Francia, Benin, Estados Unidos de América, Mozambique, Zambia, Gambia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Esuatini, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leona, Malawi, Rwanda, Mauricio, Sudáfrica, Lesotho, Madagascar, Tanzania, India, Kenya, África
One of the guiding mandates within the FAO Constitution is the following: “The Organization shall promote and, where appropriate, shall recommend national and international action with respect to: … the conservation of natural resources and the adoption of improved methods of agricultural production ...”. In many African countries, in addition to low yields, food production is limited by the availability of land and water resources.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2000Sudán, Egipto, Estados Unidos de América, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Namibia, Esuatini, Congo, Djibouti, Malawi, Comoras, Eritrea, Seychelles, Mozambique, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Italia, Tanzania, Etiopía, Kenya, África
This paper discusses – at the sub-basin level – the regional differences and comparative advantages for agricultural development and water resources utilization in the Nile Basin. It looks at options for development, projected in the regional context, and the importance of agricultural water use for social and food security in the different parts of the basin.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesFebrero, 2012Argelia, Malí, Chile, Azerbaiyán, Perú, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, Malawi, Kenya, Filipinas, Turquía, Japón, Italia, Tanzania, Países Bajos, Túnez, India, Viet Nam
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Library ResourceMultimediaDiciembre, 2001Malawi, África austral, África
As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2016Fiji, Honduras, Estados Unidos de América, Zambia, Dinamarca, Indonesia, Perú, Reino Unido, Ghana, Malawi, Costa Rica, Níger, Nueva Zelandia, Nepal, Marruecos, Japón, Malasia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Chad, Canadá
Where do forests and forestry stand today in international climate change negotiations? What exactly does it mean to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)? What are the opportunities and risks for forests in today’s changing climate and is there a clear path forward? The articles in this issue address these and other questions.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2015Malawi, África austral
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Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesDiciembre, 1988Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, África subsahariana, África
Several traditional methods of maintaining soil fertility in bean-based cropping systems are reviewed as follows: visoso, large- scale chitemene, ngoro or matengo pit (Mbinga District, Tanzania), mambwe land-use system of northern Zambia (fundikila), mounds of the Wafipas (SW Tanzania), tumba land-use system (southern Tanzania), guie (central highlands of Ethiopia), mafuku in Zaire, termite mounds, agroforestry, relay intercropping systems, coffee- banana-bean cropping system of the Wahayas of Bukoba (Tanzania), removal of maize tassels (northern Malawi), and storage of nutrients in weeds (
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