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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 ...
The Political Organisation Of Chinese Agriculture
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ) ( formerly Geographical Association of Rhodesia.) (GAR)), 1977-12)
When the Community Party came to power in 1949 there were two main groups in the Chinese agricultural system. The landlords and rich peasants, who formed about 10 per cent of the population owned or controlled about 70 per ...
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 ...
Agricultural Production in Semi-Arid Regions: Use of Legume-Based Mixed Cropping Systems in Kenya
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1998)
Increasing pressure to feed an ever-expanding population has necessitated an extension of agricultural production in Kenya into marginal semi-arid regions. Crop productivity in these regions is limited not only by the ...
Agricultural Marketing Policy in South Africa
(Rhodesian Economic Society. (RES) University of Rhodesia (UR) (now University of Zimbabwe.) (UZ.), 1972-06)
Genetic Improvement of Racosperma spp. for Agroforestry in sub-Saharan African Countries
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1998)
Racosperma auriculiformis (formerly Acacia auriculiformis) and R. mangium (formerly Acacia mangium), two woody leguminous plants, have been introduced in many sub-Saharan African countries for reforestation and agroforestry ...
Animal health research and development
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 2006)
Zimbabwe’s veterinary delivery system and research capability have been shaped by the need to prevent, control, manage and/or eradicate animal diseases.202 Although major epidemics like rinderpest, contagious bovine ...
Farm economics with particular reference to farm management
(Rhodesian Economic Society. (RES) University of Rhodesia (UR) (now University of Zimbabwe.) (UZ.), 1967-12)
I should like to commence by quoting briefly from Sir Miles Thomas’s biography—a quotation I consider important because it was made by one of the leading business managers of the twentieth century. “My farming venture in ...
Agronomic and economic impact of legume inoculant use in Zambia, 1985-1992.
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1998)
The global economic impact of BNF technology is enormous, estimated at $85 billion annually. But donor and government policy makers do not have access to meaningful and accurate data with which to make effective decisions ...