Changes in shifting cultivation in Africa: Seven case studies

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Year of Publication
1985
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FAO Forestry Paper no. 50/1
Number of Pages
185
Date Published
01/1985
Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
City
Rome
Language
English
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92-5-102283-6 978-92-5-102283-2
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S602.87.C483 1985
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Excerpts from following papers: The case of the CGOT Sector, Sedhiou (Casamance), Senegal: transformations of traditional agriculture after an unsuccessful large-scale operation for mechanized groundnut production in forest zones; Integrated Rural Development Project, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone; Development of ecological methods of upland farming in West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania; Smallholder plantation agriculture of immigrant Baoule farmers in southwestern Ivory Coast; Alternatives and improvements to shifting cultivation on the east coast of Madagascar; The modifications to traditional shifting cultivation brought about by the forest development project in the HADO area, Kondoa, Tanzania; Forestry and socio-economic aspects of modification of traditional shifting cultivation through the taungya system in the Subri area, Ghana.
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Changes in shifting cultivation in Africa