Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author wishes to express sincere gratitude to the International
Development Research Centre (IDRC) through AGROPOLIS for funding the
research work. Thanks also to the Country Director and Staff of Africare,
along with research assistants and technical staff at Bunda College of
Agriculture, for their contributions and considerable knowledge.
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David Dalison Mkwambisi; Ph.D. Environment and Development, University of Leeds,
The School of Earth and Environment, Sustainability Research Institute, Leeds LS2 9JT,
UK; tel: +44 113 343 6466; fax: +44 113 343 6716; email: Mkwambisi@env.leeds.ac.uk
2
This is made up of 150 kg maize and 13 kg of rice, sorghum, millet and wheat, and an
equivalent of 17-kg-worth of grain from other sources such as sweet potato - crops
such as sweet potato are considered to be worth 25 per cent of the equivalent amount
of grain (FAO/WFP/GoM, 2005).
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