During the past two decades there has been increasing concern that the development strategies of the 1950s and 1960s would neither eliminate nor even greatly reduce poverty even as the pervasive nature of that poverty became more widely recognized. This increase in concern conincided with the drama of the major biological breakthroughs in food production associated with the "green revolution." A debate began on whether there was a causal relation between the technology of the green revolution and the incidence of rural poverty.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 1985India, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 1985India, Southern Asia
In his insghtfull but unfinished work, Dharm Narain drew attention to the behavior of prices as one of the important factors determining the extent of poverty in rural India. His empirical investigations, summarized in Gunvant Desai's contribution to this volume (chap. 1), provide strong prima facie evidence of such influence. Dharm Narain found that rural poverty is not only inversely related to the level of output per head of the rural population, as established in Ahluwalia (1978a), but also positively related to the level of prices.
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Library ResourceLegislationNovember, 1984Turkey
The objective of this Law, which includes 28 articles and 3 provisional articles in 3 sections, is to make provision for the following matters: (1) Productive cultivation of the land and increase employment in these areas; (2) Distribution of land to landless farmers or farmers with insufficient land; support and training to farmers; (3) Small land integration for productive cultivation; (4) Creation of new settlement locations and enlargement of existing settlement areas; (5) When necessary, rearrangement of land for other purposes.
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Library ResourceConstitutionDecember, 1984Guinea-Bissau
The constitution was approved and adopted by the National Popular Assembly.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984France, Greece, United States of America, Malaysia, Bulgaria, China, Italy, Europe, Asia
Freezaillah B.C. Yeom of Malaysia, drawing upon his experience as a forest-resources manager in Southeast Asia, evaluates available information and weighs both positive and negative aspects of the development of lesser-known species within the wider context of resource-management efforts. From the United States, James S. Bethel, with extensive practical forestry experience at both national and international levels, evaluates, from the standpoint of the user, the facts and the conclusions that he and other well-known experts in the field of forest-resource development have drawn from them.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984Kenya, France, Nigeria, Philippines, Micronesia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, India, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Niger, Brazil
Shifting cultivation, under its diverse forms of slash and burn system, is a traditional method of cultivating tropical upland soils, mostly for subsistence purposes. This traditional system of cultivation is in ecological balance with the environment and does not irreversibly degrade the soil resource, provided a sufficient length of fallow is allowed for soil restoration. However, increasing population pressures necessitate more intensive use of land. The consequence is extended cropping periods and shortened fallows.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984France, Greece, China, Europe, Asia
Freezaillah B.C. Yeom, de Malaisie, fait appel son exprience de gestionnaire forestier en Asie du Sud-Est pour valuer les informations disponibles sur les essences secondaires et peser le pour et le contre de leur emploi plus large dans le cadre gnral de l'amnagement des ressources. James S. Bethel, des Etats-Unis, qui a une vaste exprience de la sylviculture tant dans son pays que sur le plan international, expose ses propres observations et conclusions, ainsi que celles d'autres experts de renom, relatives la mise en valeur des ressources forestires.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984Rwanda, Ecuador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Chile, Kenya
La cuestin de la mujer y la silvicultura es, pues, un elemento central en el campo general de las relaciones entre la mujer, la alimentacin y la agricultura que este ao se pusieron de relieve en todos los pases el 16 de octubre, con ocasin del Da Mundial de la Alimentacin. Al dedicar este nmero de Unasylva a La mujer y la agricultura - tema del Da Mundial de la Alimentacin - en los aspectos relacionados con la silvicultura, la FAO no desea limitarse a destacar los problemas y necesidades de las campesinas.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984Kenya, Laos, Honduras, Dominican Republic
La question des femmes et de la sylviculture est par consquent intimement lie celle plus gnrale des relations entre les femmes, l'alimentation et l'agriculture, qui seront mises en lumire cette anne dans tous les pays lors de la Journe mondiale de l'alimentation, le 16 octobre. En consacrant le prsent numro d'Unasylva au thme de cette journe mondiale: Les femmes dans l'agriculture, tel qu'il se transpose la fort, la FAO souhaite faire plus qu'veiller l'attention sur les proccupations et les besoins des femmes rurales.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984
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