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  1. Library Resource
    January, 1989
    United States of America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern America, Latin America and the Caribbean

    It is clear from the failure of our efforts in many countries to halt the desertification process - deserts are now advancing at a rate of nearly 15,000,000 acres a year worldwide (Worrall 1984) (that something was missing in our knowledge of the problem). Four discoveries have been made that enabled us to design a simple holistic model to manage resources successfully in a sustained and economic manner.

  2. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 1990
    Benin
  3. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 1989
    Burkina Faso
  4. Library Resource
    January, 1990
    Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

    In their recent paper, de Leeuw and Tothill (1990) discussed the shortcomings of estimating carrying capacity (CC) of pastoral systems in Africa. They noted the difficulty of determining available forage per animal due to high annual and spatial variability in plant production, seasonal changes in forage quantity and quality, livestock species mix, and the use of supplemental feeds.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 1989
    Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Carrying capacity (CC) is a term often talked about in relation to livestock in the communal areas (CAs). It is the source of much confusion. This discussion paper will hopefully clarify some of the issues and make the implications for the policy debate clearer. It is based on the preliminary findings of field work carried out in Zvisharane District during 1986 and 1987.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1989
    Kenya

    In most Developing countries only a small number of new jobs
    are available in agriculture. The capital scarcity limits the
    number of nonfarm jobs that can be created, because investments
    costs per job are high in modern industry. Thus an effective
    development policy should seek to increase the labor relative to.,
    capital, to the extent that it is economically efficient.
    In the Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1986 on Economic Management
    for Renewed Growth, the Kenya Government notes that
    historically, there has been

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1989
    Australia, Netherlands, Japan, Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This document summarises the information available on the habits of fishes in floodplain regions of the Sepik and Ramu River systems, Papua New Guinea, with respect-to project PNG/85/001

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