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Author: J. Pender
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Keywords: african, highlands, east, management, sustainable, land, strategies
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0896297578
ISBN-13: 9780896297579
Deforestation, overgrazing, and unsustainable methods of cultivation are threatening agriculture and food security in the highlands of East Africa. In response, economists and other development professionals have turned their attention to combating the pr
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Author: Samuel Benin
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Keywords: northern, ethiopian, highlands, farms, household, cereal, diversity, communities, determinants
Number of Pages: 55
Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN-10: 9291461482
ISBN-13: 9789291461486
On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and infra-specific diversity (diversity among varieties within a species) of cereal crops grown in communities and on individual farms in the northern Ethiopian highlands.
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Author: Lawrence J. M. Haas
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: governance, sustainability, improvement, practices, communication, highlands, water, project, lesotho
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2010-07-30
ISBN-10: 0821384155
ISBN-13: 9780821384152
Lesotho Highlands Water Project is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.This paper considers the multi-faceted lessons of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and how the project can serve as a model of mutually beneficial development, though demonstrating the benefits of a bilateral governmental cooperative approach in the development of an international river. These benefits include exceeding the impact of individual national approaches and strengthening political co
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Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: final, report, assessment, streams, highlands, midatlantic
Number of Pages: 74
Published:
ISBN-10: 1428901973
ISBN-13: 9781428901971
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Author: Samuel Benin
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Keywords: highlands, ethiopian, development, livestock, policies
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 9291461067
ISBN-13: 9789291461066
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Author: Sidney Jones
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Keywords: vietnam, central, highlands, religion, land, montagnards, conflicts, over, repression
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 1564322726
ISBN-13: 9781564322722
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