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  1. In this issue, several authors indicate the causes of poverty in their area of work. For example Barkin (p.41) points at the processes of cultural oppression and agricultural modernisation that affected the indigenous peoples in rural Mexico; Satheesh (p.20) presents the influence of the Public...
  2. 1980-01-01 Este enfoque parte del estudio de sistemas agropecuarios que los agricultores estan usando actualmente, esta nueva estrategia requiere de un tipo de diagnostico diferente a la forma tradicional. La metodologia que aqui se presenta corresponde a una primera aproximacion del desarrollo definitivo...
  3. 2022-01-01 Scientific understanding about domestication and the origins of food production in East Asia is undergoing rapid change based on new data from archaeology, paleobiology, and paleoenvironmental studies. The earliest agricultural and pastoral societies emerged from the highly diverse habitats and...
  4. 2011-01-01 Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa,...
  5. 2000-04-01 This book is addressed to decision-makers in governments in the hope that it may help them to optimise their agricultural, food and post-production policies and strategies. The book should enable planners and practitioners at all levels of post-production intervention to obtain a deeper...
  6. 1974-01-01 358 pages, illustrated Cambridge Geographical Studies
  7. 2014-04-20 Harry van den Burg wrote in response to theEDN 121 articleabout: …the extent to which risk aversion may have been and even is overestimated, at the expense of hunger and exhaustion, as a leading limiting factor on agricultural productivity. “Whereas I certainly think that the argument has merit…I...
  8. 2012-04-20 Many of you are already familiar withECHO’s previously published book,Amaranth to Zai Holes (A-Z ), acompilation of the first 51 issues ofEDN . Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmersis a sequel to A-Z , with contentdrawn primarily from issues 52 through100 of EDN , but also containing...
  9. 2011-10-20 World Vision (WV) Australia is involved in both agricultural development and relief work in East Africa. We asked folks there to answer a few questions regarding the current drought and famine. In what ways have you been involved with addressing the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa? Could...