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Hazards and opportunities : farming livelihoods in dryland Africa : lessons from Zimbabwe / Ian Scoones with Chinaniso Chibudu ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, 1996.Description: xviii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1856493539 (cased)
  • 1856493547 (limp)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.14096891 20 SCO
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Open Access Book Open Access Agriculture and Animal Sciences Library 338.14096891 SCO 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available AAS0000210
Book Open Access Book Open Access Agriculture and Animal Sciences Library 338.14096891 SCO 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available AAS0000211

Contents

1. Exploring risk and uncertainty
2. Farming livelihoods in southern Zimbabwe
3. Money and markets
4. Agriculture in a variable environment
5. Risky decisions
6. Making the most of spatial variation
7. Managing soil fertility
8. Exploring experimentation
9. Multiple actors, multiple perspectives
10. Coping with drought
11. Cattle and drought
12. Policies for an uncertain world

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.

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