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Displaying 71 - 75 of 224Transnational Corporations in the Banana Industry in Cameroon
Prior to tho advent of colonialism, the banana industry in Cameroon was essentially
a traditional cottage industry producing for domestic consumption. When the country become a German colony towards the end of the nineteenth century, tho industry "began to develop into what is today, an export oriented activity based on colonial plantations
Les indicateurs du développement agricole
Le présent document ne prétend pas dorme une définition globale des indicateurs du développement agricole; il se "borne plutôt a dégager certaines considérations de base dont on tient compte dans leur élaboration.
Indicators for agricultural development
This paper concentrates more on the indicators that deal more or less directly with the increase of agricultural productivity and production. There is the fundamental constraint then that because of the imprecise nature of some of the factors to be measured, the indicators themselves may not in fact be measuring what they were meant to measure. However, this does not relieve the user of constructor of indicators from the obligation to offer a hypothesis as a start and then work to the final “theorem” for that is what all indicators at the start are hypothesis.
Summary report of main activities of the FAO/ECA advisory group on Food and Agricultural Industries Development in Africa (AGFI) 1980-81
With the goal of stimulating the production and utilisation of indigenous cereals, rootss tubers and legumes in particular sorghum in composite flours for bakery products in traditional, new and modified food products it will have the following objectives^
a) ensure better understanding of the importance and potential
for industrial application of sorghums etc. and the technologies
available for milling and baking coarse grains'
b) ascertain the status and plans of existing 'national composite
flour programmes or the possibilities of establishing such
Transformation et utilisation des matières premières minérales dans les pays Africains
Le gouvernement d’un pays africain peut adopter une politique de promotion de la transformation en aval de façon à augmenter sa part dans la capacité mondiale de transformation en vue d'accroitre les recettes d’exportation. Pour atteindre ces objectifs il peut décider de créer de nouvelles capacités de production ou de développer la capacité de transformation en aval des matières premières produites dans le pays.