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Common property externalities: Isolation, assurance, and resource depletion in a traditional grazing context
(1981)Common property rights are distinct from open access, where there are no laws regulating individual grazing; it is the breakdown of common property rights which has resulted in overgrazing in the Sahel, which in turn has ... -
Issue paper for USAID and Institute for Development Anthropology
(1981)This paper highlights the indicators which can be used to inform policy makers about development options. It found that management units for development intervention should be small scale and based on existing systems, and ... -
Mode of production and population patterns: Policy implications for West African development
(1981)Recent developments in population theory have made possible a re-examination of demographic evidence from West Africa which suggests that population control and migration are primarily responses to changes in the nature ... -
No-Tillage Research: Research Reports and Review
(Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, 1981) -
The effects of direct drilling and minimal cultivation on earthworm populations
(British Ecological Society, 1982)This study assessed earthworm populations under continuous cereal crops that were deep ploughed, chisel ploughed, or direct drilled. There were much larger populations of deep burrowing earthworm populations in the direct ... -
No-Tillage Farming
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The toxicity of Cassia occidentalis to goats
(Kansas, USA: American College of Veterinary Toxicologists, 1982)In 8 goats given the leaves or seeds of C. occidentalis , the main signs of poisoning were diarrhea, inappetence, dyspnoea, staggering, ataxia and recumbency. Lesions consisted of hemorrhages and congestion in the heart, ... -
Nutrition in Agriculture No. 3: Selecting Interventions for Nutritional Improvement
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1983)This Manual accompanies other publications in the Nutrition in Agriculture Series designed to facilitate the integration of nutrition objectives and outcomes with the objectives and outcomes of agriculture and rural ... -
Nutrition in Agriculture No. 4: Data Needs for Assessing the Nutritional Effects of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects - A paper for project planners
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1983)This publication is a practical guide for assessing the nutritional effects of agricultural and rural development projects and accompanies several other publications in FAO's Nutrition in Agriculture Series. -
Effect of tillage, cropping, and fertilizer management on soil nitrogen mineralization potential
(Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America, 1983)This article compares the nitrogen mineralization potential (N) of soils under three tillage treatments (moldboard plowing, chisel plowing, and no-till) and several different crop rotations. The moldboard plow treatment ... -
The interaction of physical, biological, and socio-economic factors in determining human roles in a dynamic agricultural production system - The Hawazma Ttanshumants of Western Sudan
(1983)This report describes the three main agricultural production systems in the Sudan, which are sedentary farmers, transhumant pastoralists and true nomads. Also discussed are production roles, migration cycles, decision-making ... -
A regional landscape approach to maintain diversity
(1983)Land managers traditionally assumed that achieving maximum local habitat diversity will favor diversity of wildlife. Recent trends in species composition in fragmented landscapes suggest, however, that a more comprehensive ... -
No-tillage Crop Production in the Tropics
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Herders and farmers or farmer-herders and herder-farmers?
(London, England, UK: Overseas Development Institute ODI Pastoral Network Paper No. 15d, 1983)The paper describes the recent evolution of cropping patterns in Kala, an agro-pastoral village in Central Mali, and examines the economic strategies of herders and farmers in the region. It looks at the growing competition ... -
Sahel development program
(1983)This report reviews the analysis of US AID programs and their relationship to the overall regional strategy in the Sahel. Futhuer, this report provides a forum for discussing new themes and their integration into USAID strategy. -
No-Tillage Agriculture Principles and Practices
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Soil organic matter and structural stability: Mechanisms and implications for management
(Springer Netherlands, 1984)This paper discusses the soil factors and mechanisms that influence the stability of micro- and macroaggregates and the consequential implications for soil management. -
Range/livestock research activities 1982/1983
(Western Sudan Agricultural Research Project Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 1984)The following sections of this report summarize the activities of the Range/Livestock Section for 1982/1983. Diagnostic and investigative activities, in addition to in-herd and on-range trails are discussed. The focus of ... -
Nutrition and Agriculture No. 2: Integrating nutrition into agricultural and rural development projects - Six case studies
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1984)This is the follow-up publication to an FAO manual of the same name published in 1982. It describes the methodology of agricultural and rural development projects in the form of six case studies. In each project, a common ... -
Behind the weather: Why the poor suffer most: Drought and the Sahel
(London, UK: OXFAM, 1984)This document looks at some of the major agricultural changes that have been taking place in the Sahel, and at how these changes have affected the most vulnerable sections of the population. It argues that today's crisis ...