@article {834,
	title = {Survey report for increasing food production and its development plan in Africa: Zimbabwe},
	year = {1989},
	month = {March 1989},
	institution = {Association for International Cooperation of Agriculture \& Forestry, Japan},
	address = {Tokyo},
	abstract = {In the first half of the 1980s, African countries, particularly those located south of the Sahara Desert, faced a serious problem of food shortage that was caused by population increase, progress of desertification and continuation of drought year. Although the food shortage has been somewhat alleviated in the recent years due to favorable climatic conditions, the increase of food production continues to be the fundamental problem as no improvement has been made on the fragility of food production in these African countries. Cooperation and support from the developed countries are needed in solving this problem. The role of Japan would be to actively provide cooperation to the African countries in the domain of agriculture and forestry. For this purpose, AICAF has been conducting a survey to grasp the actual conditions of food and agriculture in the African countries since 1985 under the consignment from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. This survey has been conducted on twelve countries by the end of FY 1987.},
	keywords = {Africa, aquatic resources, desertification, drought, food production, Zimbabwe},
	author = {Association for International Cooperation of Agriculture \& Forestry (AICAF)}
}
@article {652,
	title = {Soil and water conservation as a starting point for rural forestry: The OXFAM Project in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso},
	journal = {Rural Africana},
	volume = {23-24},
	year = {1985},
	month = {Fall {\textquoteright}85-Win {\textquoteright}86},
	pages = {79-85},
	abstract = {This paper is a case study of the agroforestry program also known as the Microcatchment Project, funded by OXFAM in the Yatenga region of Burkina Faso. The area has a history of overuse of land resources leading to a decrease in the arable surface and severe degradation of the environment. Past efforts to improve the farmers{\textquoteright} situation have met largely with failure, while traditional methods of adapting were innovative but insufficient. The project, by relying on the farmers{\textquoteright} participation to develop techniques of water conservation, has shown that land degradation can be reversed and food production increased by the farmers themselves.},
	keywords = {Burkina Faso, food production, microcatchment, OXFAM, water conservation},
	author = {Peter Wright and Edouard G. Bonkoungou}
}
@article {541,
	title = {Developing sustainable agroecosystems},
	journal = {BioScience},
	volume = {33},
	year = {1983},
	month = {January 1983},
	pages = {45-49},
	abstract = {Yields in modern agricultural systems are sustained by investing costly external resources of uncertain future availability and with technologies that have prompted ecosystemic degradation. The ecological and socioeconomic aspects of developing alternative, self-sustained, energy efficient, less resource-intensive agroecosystems are analyzed. (author)},
	keywords = {agronomy, biodiversity, ecosystem, energy use, food production, insects, land use, local knowledge, pest management, plant diseases, soils, sustainable agriculture, weeds},
	doi = {10.2307/1309244},
	url = {http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/1/45},
	author = {Miguel A. Altieri and Deborah K. Letourneau and James R. Davis}
}
