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Soil conservation in Tigray, Ethiopia
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002This report presents a review into soil erosion and conservation research and efforts made in Tigray.The report includes both traditional measures and activities promoted by non-government organisations (NGO's) and government projects. Main emphasis is placed on stone terracing and stone bunds since these are the most widely used soil conservation measures in the region.DocumentLand redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production: a study of farm households in southern Ethiopia
CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001This study analyses the determinants of land tenure insecurity and its impact on intensity of use of purchased farm inputs among households in southern Ethiopia. Seventeen percent of the households stated that they were tenure insecure.DocumentVoices down the damned river: a case study of the encounter between the Jere rice farmers and the Borno state government over the Alau dam project 1989-98
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000The Alau river was dammed in the 1980s under a multi- million dollar World Bank Urban Water Supply Project, depriving farmers of water located downstream in the Jere Bowl, and reducing their harvest by an estimated N200 million worth of rice per annum. This study seeks to investigate the encounter between the Jere Rice Farmers Association and the state over the past decade.DocumentState of disaster: Causes, consequences & policy lessons from Malawi
ActionAid International, 2002Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about the famine and concludes that it occurred as a result of the increased vulnerability of rural livelihoods combining with weak institutional policies and responses.DocumentLimiting livestock pressure on public rangeland in Niger
Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1986The present paper is based on a participatory survey carried out in order to establish baseline information on a little known livestock production system and its role in local ecology and economy.The study is based on research in El Kala National Park (North East Algeria).This paper draws attention to some of the problems that arise in understanding the cost and benefit flows in pastoralist systemDocumentConcepts of sustainable agriculture and rural development: IISD bibliography
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999DocumentFinancing of agricultural research and extension for smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa (ODI)
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999DocumentPesticides and the Immune System report
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1996Report brings together for the first time an extensive body of experimental and epidemiological research from around the world documenting the effects of widely used pesticides on the immune system and the attendant health risks.DocumentDeterminants of farm productivity in Africa (MSU)
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999