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Library ResourceJanuary, 1987South Africa
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1988Rwanda
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1987Egypt
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1987Kenya
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1987Kenya
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987Kenya
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1987Kenya
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1987Kenya
In the early days of commercial penetration of East
Africa by the Europeans the present route to Uganda originating
from the Kenyan Coast town of Mombasa was rarely used
because of the difficulties experienced in sustaining long
caravans over the arid Nyika Region between the Coast and
the Kenya Highlands, and the hostility of tribes inhabiting
this area - especially the Masai. Colonial penetration of
the present area known as Kenya began about 1850 and intensified
after 1883 when Joseph Thomson managed to cross Masai Land; -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 1987Africa
The basic cause of needless poverty and hunger in the rural Africa to-day is the stagnation of its main economic base - agriculture. It has settled down to a low level of equilibrium of income, saving and investment over time. Hence, most of the rural people of the region is caught in a vicious circle of a poverty trap. They are below the "absolute poverty line". The country studies show all of them are food-deficit.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsFebruary, 1987Africa
The importance of post-harvest food losses in developing countries including Africa was given the right consideration by the seventh special session of the United Nations General Assembly held in 1975. The Assembly adopted resolution 3362 (S-VII) which, inter alia, called for drastic reduction of post harvest food losses and recommended that the goal of 50 per cent reduction;be attained by 1985.
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