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    International Workshop on Improving Urban Management

    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1989
    Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

    Presenta una estrategia para combinar la teoría y la práctica en la búsqueda de métodos que den buenos resultados para mejorar la gestión de las zonas urbanas y las condiciones de vida cotidiana en las mayores ciudades del mundo. Incluye un informe sobre la marcha del proyecto Mega-Cities, hasta la fecha, en las ciudades participantes: México, Sao Paulo, Tokio, Nueva York, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Londres y Nairobi.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1989
    Africa

    The population of African countries is likely to double over the next twenty years. How will these nations be able to feed themselves if a substantial part of their food has to be imported, especially as most of these countries also have to import their energy? This is the real of challenge facing African countries at the close of this century.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 1989
    Africa

    The present paper was prepared as part of the work programme of food and agriculture for the 1988-1989 biennium. It constitutes element 2.4 on multinational co-operation on livestock development in Africa and it focuses on the performance of the sector in the face of government intervention and the structural adjustment programmes (SAP). The effect of the SAP on the achievement of increased collective self-sufficiency and self-reliance in animal food production and supply was given particular attention.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1989
    Africa

    This paper is a draft report on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Draft Medium Term Plan.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 1989
    Africa

    Le présent rapport a pour objectif d'examiner les résultats obtenus, de recenser les expériences novatrices et de fournir un cadre de discussion pour l'avenir. Cette politique s'expliquait par les choix politiques des dirigeants nationaux, le désir des gouvernements de pays nouvellement indépendants d'innover et d'agir rapidement, la nécessite d'apaiser les groupes de pression intérieurs, et, quelquefois, le manque de données fiables sur l'efficacité de ces systèmes au niveau de l'exploitation agricole.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1989
    Africa

    L’atelier qui est intitulé : ‘’Fabrication des machines et équipements agricoles dans les pays de l’Afrique du Nord’’ permet aux experts de la sous-région d’échanger les expériences vécues dans le domaine de la conception, de la fabrication, de l’adaptation et de la vulgarisation des machines et équipements ainsi que dans le domaine de la maintenance.

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1989
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Reviews the extent and use of crop residues as livestock feeds in Ethiopia with special emphasis to wheat with respect to varietal difference and agronomic practices to enhance the utilisation of the straw. Lists area and yield of major crops in Ethiopia. Presents data on yield & chemical composition of various crop residues, weight gains of steers fed crop residue, and effect of N fertilization on grain yield and quality & quantity of wheat straw. Also summarises results of an undersowing trials of forage crops to wheat.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1989
    Mali, Africa, Western Africa

    This study identifies the causes of the observed differences in flock productivity in a central Malian village, in a rainfed millet agropastoral subsystem. Small ruminant productivity, management factors and socio-economic characteristics are analysed. The causes leading to the observed differences in small ruminant productivity are related to the owner's socioeconomic characteristics, to his management strategies or to preferences for one or the other small ruminant species.

  9. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1989
    Colombia, South America, Central America

    Using the farm as unit of analysis, diagnosis processes aimed at improving production systems are reviewed. Within a country, diagnosis should be conducted at different hierarchical levels: local (interaction between the production system and the input distribution sector, the marketing sector, possible forms of processing, and consumption characteristics); regional (appropriate selection of target site); and national (development trends and governmental policies at the macroeconomic and sectorial levels).

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