LESOTHO: A Note on the Machobane System
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November 1996
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FAODOCREP:c90984e0-b71c-5871-97a2-abbe704c5b02
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16
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This note on the Machobane system is based on information gathered by an FAO Investment Centre mission which visited Lesotho in July 1996 on behalf of the Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, to prepare the ground for the formulation of a Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Programme for possible IFAD financing. Observations of farmers attitudes and behaviour as well as relevant socio-economic data were collected in February 1996 in several villages of two Districts in Lesotho and are presented. See also the related FAO Investment Centre Occasional Paper N. 6 "Assessing the Adoptability of Improved Crop Production Technologies by Small Farmers: the Case of Lesotho".
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