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Sustainable Intensification
Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems
Series: International Journal Agricultural Sustainability
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,...
Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Woman's Role in Economic Development
'Boserup's contribution to our thinking on women?s role in development cannot be underestimated. Her keen observations, her use of empirical data and her commitment to greater gender equality are still an inspiration to students, researchers and activists who are interested in a better and more...
Published April 30th 2007 by Routledge
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Towards a New Map of Africa
'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich? or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how?...
Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge