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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 1990

    CONTENTS: Message from the Chairman / Gerry Helleiner; Introduction / Just Faaland; Research results:; Food data evaluation program; World food trends and projections during this decade; Production and consumption of foodgrains in India; Poverty and technical change in China; Horticultural trade; Food production policy program; Generation and diffusion of modern agricultural technology; Accelerating growth with equity; Agricultural resources and the environment; Agricultural growth linkages program; Growth and equity in rural areas; Resource transfers in the national and provincial economie

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1990
    Central America, South America

    Over the last 12 years a data base of climate, soils and crop distribution has been assembled for Latin America. Recently, socio-economic variables such as access and populations density and environmental variables such as the location of national parks, biological reserves and indian reserves have been added. Formerly this information was used primarily to make decisions on commodity research.

  3. Library Resource

    Proyecto sobre Cooperación Técnica para la Integración de Consideraciones Ambientales en la Planificación del Desarrollo - Fase II FP/9101/87/93

    Reports & Research
    February, 1990
    Argentina

    Describe algunos procesos relevantes del deterioro ambiental en Argentina como degradacion del suelo agricola, deforestacion, inundaciones, degradacion del medio urbano, y aporta elementos cuantitativos y cualitativos para dar una idea de su magnitud.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1990

    Discusses the Development of alley cropping and alley farming, uses of trees and shrubs in fallow systems, hedgegrow establishment and management and benefits for crop production and livestock. Examines the economic aspects and social acceptability of alley farming.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1990

    <p>The trend of increasing agricultural output in recent decades has been noted. To some extent this increase has been due to a myopic view on growth and development that involved an unabated exploitation of land and water resources with intensive use of complex technology. In this process, for the past few decades, man has influenced the natural state of the environment in order to create an ideal environmental condition for producing biomass and energy at a rate that surpassed all previous limits. Ibis remarkable achievement was, however, at the expense of a greater social cost.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1990
    Africa

    The project was first conceived as a “Transnational project on the Management of Major Regional Aquifer in N.E. Africa” during the UNCOD held in Nairobi in 1977 and that it had been taken up by ADALCO in 1987. He pointed out that the sandstone aquifer occupying an area of about 2,000,0000 sq. km underlines the common border areas of Sudan, Egypt, Libya and Chad. Environmentally, it was observed that the zone has a relief characterized by a vast sandy plan, which is occasionally interrupted by scattered flat topped Nubaian plateaux and escarpments.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 1990
    Brazil

    Analiza la política ambiental en la relación entre desarrollo y medio ambiente, el costo ecosocial del desarrollo brasileño, la ocupación y el desorden ecológico en la Amazonia, la presión internacional y la posición de Brasil en el debate internacional.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1990
    Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Presents procedures for feed budgeting and allocation developed to access the quantity and quality of all feed components and to determine the production goals of each enterprise and allocates feed in relation to their requirements within the framework of overall feed supplies.

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