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  1. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 1988
    Rwanda
  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1987
    Kenya

    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;

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 1987
    Africa

    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.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    February, 1987
    Africa

    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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