Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less-favoured AreasRuerd Ruben, J. Pender, Arie Kuyvenhoven CABI, 2007 - 472 pages Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session |
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... crop productivity, estimating that erosion reduced rice yield growth by 12% during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and reduced production of maize, wheat and cash crops by up to 20% in north China (Huang and Rozelle, 1994, 1996). For ...
... crop productivity, estimating that erosion reduced rice yield growth by 12% during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and reduced production of maize, wheat and cash crops by up to 20% in north China (Huang and Rozelle, 1994, 1996). For ...
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... crops like banana, plantain, coffee, cocoa and multi-purpose trees ... cash income. Major limitations are soil fertility, scarcity of good planting ... crops (maize, sorghum and cassava) and their subsequent. Share of developing countries ...
... crops like banana, plantain, coffee, cocoa and multi-purpose trees ... cash income. Major limitations are soil fertility, scarcity of good planting ... crops (maize, sorghum and cassava) and their subsequent. Share of developing countries ...
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... cash crops, using locally available resources. Sorghum, millet, maize and barley are major food crops, providing stubble grazing by animals after the harvest; cattle, sheep and goats provide the major part of cash income. Water ...
... cash crops, using locally available resources. Sorghum, millet, maize and barley are major food crops, providing stubble grazing by animals after the harvest; cattle, sheep and goats provide the major part of cash income. Water ...
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... crops have been developed that use a combination of biological, cultural ... cash inputs and are thus less accessible to poor farmers. Poor farmers tend ... crops have a large potential for being adopted by resource-poor farmers (Orr and ...
... crops have been developed that use a combination of biological, cultural ... cash inputs and are thus less accessible to poor farmers. Poor farmers tend ... crops have a large potential for being adopted by resource-poor farmers (Orr and ...
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... cash crops, expansion of perennial cash crops and increased off-farm employment or non-farm activity in combination with continued food crop production (Pender, 2004).6 As with the SLF, this work emphasizes a complex set of factors ...
... cash crops, expansion of perennial cash crops and increased off-farm employment or non-farm activity in combination with continued food crop production (Pender, 2004).6 As with the SLF, this work emphasizes a complex set of factors ...
Contents
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Development Strategies for Poor People in Lessfavoured Areas | 63 |
Resource Management Options | 133 |
Livelihoods and Food Security | 203 |
Markets and Institutional Development | 271 |
Strategies and Policy Priorities | 419 |
Index | 467 |
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