how has land redistribution helped Kenyan agriculture?
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It has effectively organized the system.\n\n(I was born in Nairobi)
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Interesting question. The best answer is to check out my thoughts below, and then skim through pages 28-68 and see if you agree.\n\nIn the British colonial Kenya story "Weep Not, Child", the man Ngotho says ‘God showed Gikuyu and Mumbi\nall the land and told them: “This land I hand over to you"'. He believed that the land was in their care and belonged to no one man.\n\nHowland, a British settler, also feels strongly about the land  that it effect it is his "god" because he pours all his energy  and time into it and it *saves* him. He believes that the land was wasteland and therefore he has a God given right, or at least a legal right to ownership.\n\nOne claim is brotherly and shared, the other is selfish.\n\nGood luck!
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It is the ministry that enforces a new direction that the government is heading.  They confiscated the white farming land and divide it for subsistance farmers/small families.  So instead of being an export nation with surplus food, it is not able to feed its own people.\n\nBlack or white, some politicians are idiots.  The white farmers were large business that produced excess food for the people of Zimbabwe and exported the rest of Africa.  Now Zimbabwe with its new policy have kicked the white farmers off their land with no compensation, and parceling out the farms in little pieces.  This is inefficient use of farm land and destroyed the once thriving farming business of Zimbabwe.
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yes,,,,, this mean they can farm there land now
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well, Kenya has for a long time, honestly, not really had much in the way of lieberalism...sociallism, thats a different story, but now that all these radical (radical to THEM) ideals have been sort of spoon fed to them, i think there will be some backlash from the senior party members and upper class (if there is such a thing, lol) in Kenya.  But it IS slowly evolving into sort of a fesible national policy
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The World Bank and IMF lends developing counties money on the condition the sell their commons (oil fields, water rights, power structure). Most of the corporations that buy them up are multi-national, so the nation losses the profits and taxes from the commons. This in turn drives the nation deeper in debt.
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In many ways for instance reducing cutting trees in the tropical forest area or replanting after cutting trees,differentiating agricultural zone from industrial zone, making zone of grazing lands.Above all reducing the industrial wastage links to the sea and polluting the air.
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1. eliminate corruption and dictatorship;\n\n2. expand and support the native system of concentrating wealth for starting small businesses;\n\n3. move away from agriculture that competes with the agribusinesses in Europe and North America and toward the special, exotic fruits and vegetables that can be sold at a premium in the developed countries, adding an effort to "brand" the items. If Chile can bring fruit and vegetables to the US markets in good condition, Africa should be able to as well.\n\n4. try to get the African countries to develop regional and continent-wide tourism marketing, and remove the impediments to tourism, such as unstable governments and rebellion.
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It would be different from country to country, but I think you have the basics as to what they would probably do. The geography and the social structure of the area would play a big part as to what would be grown in the soil and what livestock they would raise. Here are some links for you to check out:
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I won't answer your question directly, since it's YOUR homework.  However, one thing that I will tell you is that wildlife needs food in its habitat.  So, if you can think of a forest management practice that increases the availability of food for an animal, you have found a way to improve the habitat for that animal.  I hope that helps you.
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Seems to me that a farmer has three potential options with a piece of land:\nHe can grow a food crop.\nGrow a non-food crop that he can sell for cash e.g. tobacco or cotton (I think that's probably the distinction that the question is trying to make)\nUse his land for some other non-agricultural use e.g leave it fallow, build a theme park.\n\nSo the question is asking what the impact of growing too many of these non-food cash crops might be.\n\nI won't do your whole project for you, but these are the areas I think you should be visiting.\n\nEconomic impact\nWhat will happen when a lot of perhaps one particular cash crop is grown.\nSupply and demand suggests prices will fall\nMaybe balance of payments will improve if you can export\nMaybe foreign investment will come in to exploit the local availability.\nMaybe other industries will grow up to exploit the cash crop (think textiles or cigarettes).\nWhat will happen to the price of food though? Increase?\nWill you need to import more?\nIs famine a possibility?\nIf you are relying principally on one or two cash crops to generate income to spend on food imports what happens if the crop fails?\nThere are positive and negative impacts.\n\nEnvironmentally\nSo what happens if large areas of forest are removed to provide new fields for cash crops?\nWhat about the impact of large tracts of land given over to one crop.  We may be talking dust bowl here.\nWhat if the crop requires intensive farming methods - high use of fertiliser and pesticide.\n\nPolitically and socially\nWhat are the impacts of being a net importer of food?  Particularly if this means the difference between the nation starving or not.\nWhat about the extra cash coming in?  It could be spent on education, infrastructure.\nWhat happens to the Government the next election after a famine?\n\n5. Traditionally governments have used various methods:\nSubsidy: Give the farmer extra cash for producing certain crops.  Look up EEC common agricultural policy.\nTaxation: Tax the farmer for producing the crops you don't want.\nTrade barriers: Put import tariffs on the crops they want grown in the country.  Prices rise and more farmers are encouraged to grow the crops.\nQuota: Not so much in the western world, but certainly the case in the old Eastern Bloc - simply dictate to the farmer what he can grow.\n\nHope this helps
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Agricultural policy decision making in economies undergoing transition to market is in need of empirical tools for assessing the impact of alternative policy options. The econometric means available for such exercise, however, are limited for lack of data and structural breaks in economic behaviour. Synthetic, partial equilibrium, multi-market models offer a potential alternative. Such models have been used extensively, even in advanced economies, to offer valuable insights on the impact of alternative policy options. This paper shows the use of such a partial equilibrium, multi-market, synthetic-type model as a tool for agricultural policy analysis in a country in transition. The model is applied for Albania, a predominantly agricultural country that, after a period of centralism and autarky, aims to re-join the international economic system. The model, albeit its many limitations, offers some useful insights on the impact of alternative options available for agricultural price and trade policy.\n\nalso u might wanna check out this site for further info:\nhttp://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/ecopln/v32y1999i2p103-27.html
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Are you actually asking what farming techniques have changed since people were digging in the ground with stones to today's modern methods?  \n\nThis is the subject of an entire book, not something that can be answered on Yahoo Answers!\n\nYou can go to www.wikipedia.org and type in "farming", that's about as much help as I can give you without quitting my job and doing this full-time!
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Most of the agricultural lands in India are very much less than a hectare and also some were unaccountable. Organic manure may help in good yield and the top soil in course of time has been eroded and it requires regeneration.
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The rural economy that supports most Nigerians is based on the productivity of the land, 33 percent of which is cultivated. Soil fertility varies considerably but is generally poor. The most fertile of the soils are the result of alluvial deposition in river valleys. Many, however, are overused and eroded. Trees, which help prevent erosion, are often used for fuel, lumber, material for tools, fodder for animals, and herbal medicines. As a result, the landscape is becoming increasingly barren of trees, especially in densely populated areas and near larger cities.\n\nPetroleum and natural gas, the source of most of Nigeria’s export earnings, are concentrated in large amounts in the Niger Delta and just offshore. Smaller deposits are scattered elsewhere in the coastal region. Iron ore, generally of low grade, is widespread. Lignite (brown coal) and subbituminous coal (coal of a lower grade than bituminous but of a higher grade than lignite) can be found in southeastern Nigeria. Other mineral resources include tin and columbite in the Jos Plateau, and limestone in several areas, particularly in the valleys of the Niger, Benue, and Sokoto rivers. The petroleum and natural gas industries—with their oil spills, burnoff of natural gas, and clearance of vegetation—have seriously damaged the land, vegetation, and waterways in the Niger Delta.
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/sierra_leone.html\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/countries/SIERLEON.HTML\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/636696.stm\n\nECONOMY\nRich in minerals, Sierra Leone has relied on the mining sector in general, and diamonds in particular, for its economic base. In the 1970s and early 1980s, economic growth rate slowed because of a decline in the mining sector and increasing corruption among government officials. By the 1990â€™s economic activity was declining and economic infrastructure had become seriously degraded. Over the next decade much of Sierra Leoneâ€™s formal economy was destroyed in the countryâ€™s civil war. Since the cessation of hostilities in January 2002, massive infusions of outside assistance have helped Sierra Leone begin to recover. Full recovery to pre-war economic levels will require hundreds of millions of additional dollars and many more years of serious effort by the GOSL and donor governments. Much of Sierra Leoneâ€™s recovery will depend on the success of GOSL efforts to limit official corruption, which many feel was the chief culprit for the countryâ€™s descent into civil war. A key indicator of success will be the effectiveness of government management of its diamond sector. \n\nAbout two-thirds of the population engages in subsistence agriculture. Despite the fact that most Sierra Leoneans derive their livelihood from it, agriculture accounts for only 42% of national income. The government is trying to increase food and cash crop production and upgrade small farmer skills. Also, the government works with several foreign donors to operate integrated rural development and agricultural projects. \n\nMineral exports remain Sierra Leone's principal foreign exchange earner. Sierra Leone is a major producer of gem-quality diamonds. Though rich in this resource, the country has historically struggled to manage its exploitation and export. Annual production estimates range between $250-300 million. However, only a portion of that passes through formal export channels (1999: $1.2 million; 2000: $7 million; 2001: $26 million; 2002: $42 million; 2003: $76 million; 2004: $127 million). The balance is smuggled out, where it is used for money laundering and the financing of other illicit activities. Recent efforts on the part of the country to improve the management of the export trade have met with some success. In October 2000, a new UN-approved export certification system for exporting diamonds from Sierra Leone was put into place that led to a dramatic increase in legal exports. In 2001, the Government of Sierra Leone created a mining community development fund, which returns a portion of diamond export taxes to diamond mining communities. The fund was created to raise local communities' stake in the legal diamond trade. \n\nSierra Leone has one of the world's largest deposits of rutile, a titanium ore used as paint pigment and welding rod coatings. Sierra Rutile Limited, owned by a consortium of US and European investors, began commercial mining operations near Bonthe in early 1979. Sierra Rutile was then the largest nonpetroleum U.S. investment in West Africa. The export of 88,000 tons realized $75 million for the country in 1990. The company and the Government of Sierra Leone concluded a new agreement on the terms of the company's concession in Sierra Leone in 1990. Rutile and bauxite mining operations were suspended when rebels invaded the mining sites in 1995. In 2003 OPIC agreed to a $25 million guarantee to Sierra Rutile to assist with the re-start of operations, which are expected to resume soon. \n\nSince independence, the Government of Sierra Leone has encouraged foreign investment, although the business climate has been hampered by a shortage of foreign exchange, corruption, and uncertainty resulting from civil conflicts. Investors are protected by an agreement that allows for arbitration under the 1965 World Ban
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Yes they should, as long as the farmer can show that he has not mismanaged his funds.  In fact if the farmer has been doing a good job of managing the RPA should pay the whole loan back!