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Displaying 216 - 220 of 1605Seven years resource-conserving agriculture effect on soil quality and crop productivity in the Ethiopian drylands
Seven years resource-conserving agriculture effect on soil quality and crop productivity in the Ethiopian drylands
Seven years resource-conserving agriculture effect on soil quality and crop productivity in the Ethiopian drylands
Estimating Transient Freshwater Lens Dynamics for Atoll Islands of the Maldives
The water resources of the atolls of the Republic of the Maldives are under continual threat from climatic and anthropogenic stresses, such as changing rainfall patterns, sea-level rise, and contamination from human activities and climatic events. Groundwater, a historically important resource of the island communities of the Maldives, is particularly affected due to the fragile nature of the freshwater lens on small atoll islands.
South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development: Brazil and China in Ghana and Mozambique
The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant to African needs or a disguise for a new form of imperialism. This paper critically examines the rise of Chinese and Brazilian technical and economic cooperation in African agriculture with two cases drawn from Ghana and Mozambique.