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Strategies For Coping With Food Deficits In Rural Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)
The resourcefulness of African smallholders in the face of recurrent food deficits is often overlooked by professionals and officials concerned with food security. Food scarcity has provoked a wide range of interventions ...
Transport And Marketing Of Horticultural Crops By Communal Farmers Into Harare
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)
A study was initiated in 1987 with the aim of establishing the major characteristics of the transport and marketing systems for horticultural crops into Harare. Emphasis was placed on identifying the constraints in the ...
Notes On The Rural Land Resettlement Programme In Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1987-08-31)
The land redistribution and resettlement programme, that was
launched shortly after independence was aimed at (a) redressing the
inequalities in land allocation and (b) relieving population pressures in the overcrowded ...
Maize Marketing In East And Southern Africa: Increasing The Efficiency Of Parastatal Systems
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (AEE); University of Zimbabwe, 1988)
Sub-Saharan . Africa is characterized by widespread poverty and rapid population growth. Millions of Africans today are malnourished, and many more, perhaps 100 million or more, would eat better if they could (.Rotberg, ...
The Impact of Irrigation Development on Women Farmers in Zimbabwe: The Case of Mushandike and Tagarika Irrigation Schemes
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (AEE); University of Zimbabwe, 1989-07)
This study on the impact of irrigation development on Zimbabwean
women focuses on two schemes, namely, Tagarika in the Midlands
Province and Mushandike in Masvingo. Both schemes are located in the same ecological Zones ...
The Role Of Inland Waters In Nature Conservation, Food Production And Outdoor Recreation In Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1986-12)
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country with no significant natural lakes. It lies astride the watershed between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers and forms part of the high southern African plateau, which is here separated from the ...
The Utility Of A Combined Periodlc Service And Regulated Market System In The Development Of Peasant Farming Areas In Zimbabwe
(Department of Land Management (DLM) ; University of Zimbavbwe (UZ), 1981-04)
This chapter reviews a recent proposal along the lines of central place theory to build Rural Service Centres (RSC.) in Zimbabwe’ s Tribal Trust Lands. It concludes that a less concrete, more organic approach would ...
Agricultural Research And Extension: Some Proposals For The Future
(Department of Land Management (DLM) ; University of Zimbavbwe (UZ), 1981-04)
Financial Small Holder Production: A Comparison Of Individual And Group Credit Schemes In Zimbabwe
(Department of Land Management (DLM) ; University of Zimbavbwe (UZ), 1985-02)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of farmer organization in the mobilization and administration of agricultural finance. We show that in the communal lands of Zimbabwe, farmer -groups facilitate savings ...