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Zimbabwe's agricultural success over recent years has been heralded as a good example of how modern farming methods can be made to work even under Africa's traditional subsistence farmers working communally-owned land using low or no-input shifting...

'Ecology and Development in the Third World' / Avijit Gupta, 1988 , 80pp, ISBN 0 415 00673 2, price UKL5.95. Routledge - 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE - UK

Farming systems have been under serious threat in most of the sub-Saharan countries of Africa in recent times. This is a result of increasing population pressure, unstable economies both at national and international level, and changing climate....

The past few months have seen a spate of major companies getting together across the globe. It really is wild out there in 'merger mania' land, with big organisations gobbling up small ones and giants climbing clumsily into the same bed. There are...

The Thi\E8s abattoir in Senegal is no longer a source of environmental pollution. The solid waste from slaughtered animals is fermented in a tank. This produces compost and biogas, the biogas being used to provide power to the abattoir. The waste...

Mathurin Coffi Nago is a specialist in food processing. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Food Technology at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the National University of Benin and Coordinator of the Regional Applied Nutrition and Food Centre...

Wetlands are highly productive areas, offering a home to many plant and animal species and being a major storeroom for the world s water, oxygen and carbon dioxide. Among the competing claims of production, profit and preservation, what is the...

No one cultivates sloping land out of choice: hillsides are difficult to cultivate, especially with animals or tractors, and they are notoriously prone to water and soil erosion. To reduce or prevent erosion on steep slopes, where simply cultivating...

Feeding and greening the world: the role of international agricultural research by Derek Tribe 1994 274pp (pbk) ISBN 0 85198 920 9 CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8DE, UK

The Growing Diversity Website was launched in May 2002 with dozens of case studies of successful agricultural biodiversity projects based on people s control and local knowledge, worldwide. Run by the Genetic Resources Action International...