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Soil and water conservation in Kenya: Report of a Workshop held at the Univeristy of Naibori 21- 23 September, 1977
A Workshop on Soil and Water Conservation was held at the University
of Nairobi from 2l to 23 September 1977, sponsored by the Land and Farm
Management Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Departments of
Agricultural Engineering of the University and Egerton College. The objectives
of this workshop were:-
1. To bring together research workers, teachers, extension officers
and others who are concerned with problems of soil and water conservation,
2. To exchange technical information and discuss problems in
assessing needs and in planning, implementing and evaluating conservation
systems, and
3. To identify priorities for research and to seek ways to increase
the effectiveness and relevance of teaching.
In keeping with these objectives, a number of papers were presented
at the workshop and are included in full in this report. Topics covered
include, among others, experiments with various cropping systems and tillage
methods to determine which patterns of land use minimise soil loss methods
for reclaiming swampy or badly eroding land, studies of small experimental
catchment areas, the physical and social problems involved in carrying out
conservation programmes in semi-arid areas, and the Ministry of Agriculture's
plans for a major soil and water conservation programme.
In addition to these discussions, field trips were conducted to
Machakos and Murang'a which are described in this report, and a list of
recommendations was drafted which is also included
Nutrition planning and policy for African countries: summary report of a seminar held 2-19 June, 1976
This paper is the summary report of a seminar which was held at
the Institute for Development Studies from 2 to 19 June 1976, The seminar
was sponsored by USAID through a contract to Cornell University in Ithaca,
New York. Participants were government officers and employees of nongovernment
agencies from ten English-speaking African countries whose
responsibilities are clearly related to nutrition planning and policy making.
The report includes short summaries of the sessions conducted
by the seminar staff members. Some of these sessions were devoted to the
salient nutritional problems of Africa and their complex causes, to sociocultural
factors that influence the condition and its alleviation, and to
the basic economic considerations relating to the cause and control of
malnutrition and food shortages. However, much more time was devoted to
planning and policy relating to nutrition. The participants formed working
groups and prepared short reports on nutrition planning for Tanzania's
Ujamaa villages, on nutrition activities and goals in Kenya, on increased
wheat consumption and the trend toward bottle feeding in West Africa, and
on nutrition actitivities in the Sudan. The working group reports are also
included in this paper
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