This illustrated guide summarizes the key practices for producing clean planting material of banana with a high yield potential for smallholders, depending on the pests and diseases which are present. The guide is also designed to contribute to better planning of the propagation of planting material for rural development and disaster relief projects.

The study establishes the link between agricultural labor productivity and natural resources variables at the national level in Honduras. We show through spatial analysis of productivity and natural resources that the relationship between natural resource conditions and agricultural productivity is not as direct as one can imagine. Length of the rain)" season has a strong and quasi linear relation with income. Soil has little impact on productivity as well as slope and altitude since coffee production in the mountain has a strong relation on productivity.

This documents contains technical information related experiences of people who have struggled ? and sometimes failed - to keep their rights to their land. There are examples from Cameroon, Malawi, Zimbabwe and The Gambia.

If a woman loses her husband, she is also at risk, in many countries, of losing the land and property on which her survival depends. Prisca Ngum, a widow in Cameroon, describes her experience, and questions the tradition that widows should have no rights to their late husband?s property.