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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... technologies that increase crop tolerance to drought and extreme temperatures, and improve pests and disease resistance. Conservation tillage greatly benefits from herbicideresistant varieties. Breeding for resistant varieties of maize ...
... technologies that increase crop tolerance to drought and extreme temperatures, and improve pests and disease resistance. Conservation tillage greatly benefits from herbicideresistant varieties. Breeding for resistant varieties of maize ...
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... technologies and market prices; (ii) local conditioning factors such as local population density, market access, agro-ecological conditions, local market development and local institutions and organizations; (iii) household level assets ...
... technologies and market prices; (ii) local conditioning factors such as local population density, market access, agro-ecological conditions, local market development and local institutions and organizations; (iii) household level assets ...
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... technologies to promote more profitable and sustainable land use in a micro-watershed in central Honduras. They found that infrastructure development (including roads and low-cost irrigation) and dissemination of improved technologies ...
... technologies to promote more profitable and sustainable land use in a micro-watershed in central Honduras. They found that infrastructure development (including roads and low-cost irrigation) and dissemination of improved technologies ...
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... technological options tested in the study villages, leading to low profitability of efforts to promote such options for ... technologies, provision of credit and promotion of labour exchange to relax labour constraints, although nutrient ...
... technological options tested in the study villages, leading to low profitability of efforts to promote such options for ... technologies, provision of credit and promotion of labour exchange to relax labour constraints, although nutrient ...
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... technologies. To generate a marketable surplus, staple food production may be least demanding of market access (and productivity), but conventional cash crops will certainly be more demanding of both. The third and probably most common ...
... technologies. To generate a marketable surplus, staple food production may be least demanding of market access (and productivity), but conventional cash crops will certainly be more demanding of both. The third and probably most common ...
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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