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... possible for very much the same reasons that giving a preference to labor - intensive farming is not possible . First , peasants producing food for local consump- tion cannot afford to farm land irrigated by massive water devel- opment ...
... possible for very much the same reasons that giving a preference to labor - intensive farming is not possible . First , peasants producing food for local consump- tion cannot afford to farm land irrigated by massive water devel- opment ...
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... possible climatic consequences of depriving the Sudd of its annual flood . ' * Selingue , Mali / Guinea . According to Brian Johnson , of the Inter- national Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) , the sole environmental ...
... possible climatic consequences of depriving the Sudd of its annual flood . ' * Selingue , Mali / Guinea . According to Brian Johnson , of the Inter- national Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) , the sole environmental ...
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... possible by perennial irrigation . Indeed , in 1974 , Sayyid Marei , who had been minister of agriculture since 1952 and was chairman of the 1974 World Food Conference , told a parliamentary committee , " I say in all candour , as ...
... possible by perennial irrigation . Indeed , in 1974 , Sayyid Marei , who had been minister of agriculture since 1952 and was chairman of the 1974 World Food Conference , told a parliamentary committee , " I say in all candour , as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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