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Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious
illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment …

Contains papers originally presented at a seminar in Zimbabwe in October 1993, presented
in four sections: understanding farmers' knowledge, developing local crops, building …

The Northeast is still the poorest region in Thailand, but over the past two decades it has
experienced underappreciated major economic growth. This growth has not been confined …

A consideration of the great challenge facing agricultural production and development in the
1990s culminates in a discussion of 3 types of agriculture, namely the industrial, the Green …

The challenge of producing sufficient food to feed a growing world population cannot now
be met by industrialized and green revolution agriculture as production is currently at or …

Farmer participatory research (FPR) is difficult to monitor and review because it uses a
process' approach; it is done in variable, unpredictable situations; it produces some outputs …

Indigenous systems of recognition and classification of plants and arthropods are based on
local criteria of relationship and contrast. Both inherent intellectual interest and utility …

For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any
price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This …

Food surpluses had depressed world prices, by creating a glut on the market. With the
exception of Bangladesh, the most populous agricultural countries of Asia-Burma, China …