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  Considerations of wildlife resources and land use in Chad

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  Planning and education are needed on options for numbers of animals. land use in Chad to ensure that development considers the proper use, maintenance, and enhancement of its remaining natural resources, and especially the needs of fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. Chadians traditionally have harvested wildlife and their very rich fisheries to supplement their diets.
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  Cash crop and foodgrain productivity in Senegal : historical view, new survey, evidence, and policy implications

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This research report provides an in-depth understanding of many aspects of Senegalese agricultural policy, its historical impact, and more recent farmer responses to government attempts to recent farmer responses to government attempts to stimulate growth in the agricultural sector.
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  Comparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.
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  Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.
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  South Africa: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998

  Concentrates on the black smallholder farming sector. Policy objectives should include:Resource Conserving Technologies: re-orientation away from large scale farmers, consideration of goals other than high input/output (risk management, labour input, gender).
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  Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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  Botswana: Encouraging sustainable family sector agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Paper concentrates on services and policies needed to support sustainable family sector agriculture in the east of Botswana where the majority of the population and the largest number of resource poor people are concentrated. It does not attempt to look in detail at the needs of the 'Remote Area Dwellers’ although they experience extreme poverty, as this is a specific subject area.
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  Opportunities and constraints of organic agriculture: a socio-ecological analysis

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2000

  This article explores the opportunities and constraints associated with sustainable, organic agriculture. The focus of its investigation lies in exploring the social and institutional dimensions of such agricultural techniques.Protecting soils and enhancing their fertility (land stewardship) implies ensuring productive capacity for future generations.
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  Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Explores the actual and potential contribution ethical trade can make to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods. Summary report includes a description of ethical trade (Section 2), followed by an analysis of the building blocks and trade-offs that affect participation in ethical trade (Section 3).
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  Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.

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