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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... input efficiency. Given the asymmetric market access, due attention should also be given to options for reducing income inequality and resource degradation and potential pathways for escaping spatial poverty traps. Targeting of ...
... input efficiency. Given the asymmetric market access, due attention should also be given to options for reducing income inequality and resource degradation and potential pathways for escaping spatial poverty traps. Targeting of ...
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... inputs all lead to declining yields, and remoteness and the lack of services further aggravate poverty. Deforestation is occasioning every year 14–15 million ha of forest cover loss in developing countries. Subsistence farming in LFAs ...
... inputs all lead to declining yields, and remoteness and the lack of services further aggravate poverty. Deforestation is occasioning every year 14–15 million ha of forest cover loss in developing countries. Subsistence farming in LFAs ...
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... inputs, showed a decline of maize yields from 3 to 1 ton/ha (Bekunda et al., 1997). Other long-term experimental studies in sub-Saharan Africa show that, under continuous cultivation using low external inputs, soil fertility rapidly ...
... inputs, showed a decline of maize yields from 3 to 1 ton/ha (Bekunda et al., 1997). Other long-term experimental studies in sub-Saharan Africa show that, under continuous cultivation using low external inputs, soil fertility rapidly ...
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... input costs. The adoption of agroforestry technologies typically depends on local resource endowments, the ... inputs of organic matter (green or animal manure, crop residues) are usually not sufficient to halt declining yields ...
... input costs. The adoption of agroforestry technologies typically depends on local resource endowments, the ... inputs of organic matter (green or animal manure, crop residues) are usually not sufficient to halt declining yields ...
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... inputs and are thus less accessible to poor farmers. Poor farmers tend to select simple and low-cost IPM methods (Chaves and Riley, 2001), and measures based on varietal resistance, botanical seed dressing, biological control with fungi ...
... inputs and are thus less accessible to poor farmers. Poor farmers tend to select simple and low-cost IPM methods (Chaves and Riley, 2001), and measures based on varietal resistance, botanical seed dressing, biological control with fungi ...
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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