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Manual - Participatory Rapid Diagnosis and Action Planning for Irrigated Agricultural Systems (PRDA)

Year of publication 2006

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Synopsis (short abstract) In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture accounts for approximately 70 percent of the economically active population and it remains a very important social and economic sector. In this part of the world, rainfed agriculture is largely dominant: Food security and income of rural populations are vulnerable to rainfall variability, and food production is often less then the requirements of a growing population. The volatile rains and soil degradation partly explain the stagnation of agricultural yields, one cause of the chronic food deficit. ...

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