Prospects and Challenges for the CaribbeanSteven Benjamin Webb World Bank Publications, 1997 M01 1 - 32 pages World Bank Discussion Paper No. 364. This technical paper is a review of eight intensified systems of land use on unirrigated farms in developing countries. The study proposes three complementary sets of conditions necessary for farming systems to be sustainable in the long run: public sector policies and investments; private farmers, their families, and institutions; and scientific principles, natural resource endowments, and ecological systems. The farming systems include dairy development in Uruguay, fallow land in Turkey, associated cropping in Colombia and Nigeria, the opening of the Cerrados region of Brazil, the development of tillage and soybean farms in India, and perennial crop development in Kenya and Malaysia. Each case brings out the interactions among sound scientific and practical knowledge, market factors, social contexts, and public policies and investments. |
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Page 16 - OECS include the independent states of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Page 3 - Commission, the final report of which notes that "nothing poses greater threats to civil society in CARICOM countries than the drug problem and nothing exemplifies the powerlessness of regional governments more.
Page 23 - Partly as a result of past government efforts, the growth of the middle class and the diversification of the private sector and NGOs over recent decades mean that government can now reduce its role in many areas where it once seemed essential.
Page 17 - Despite this decline crude birth rates of this island remain the highest in the region and among the highest in the world.