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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fertile land"”.
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The use of daylight in the design of a controlled environment for food production in the Caribbean and other equatorial climates
… population in these climates means that existing fertile land is being taken-over for housing and infrastructure. Furthermore, the fishing industry is also a victim of over-fishing due to a need for alternative foods. This design proposes a technological solution to this social problem. Presented …
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South Sudan & the “Global Land Grab”: Implications for the Future of Food Security
… concern. South Sudan occupies some of the most fertile land with access to several major water sources -- all the ingredients for a thriving agriculture sector -- and yet, it is a net food importer. Worse, 60 percent of the population does not consume enough food to provide a nutritious diet. …
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Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali
… their control over servile labor and much of the fertile land along the floodplain of the Niger River. Over the course of the colonial occupation, indigenous leaders and intellectuals imbued older local notions of racial difference with European ideas picked up in their dealings with the French. …
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The politics of land in Levubu, Northern Province c.1935-1998
… agriculture was characterised by the quest for fertile land for white farmers while, at the same time, dispossessing indigenous communities. Land as the country's main political and economic resource has been manipulated to control people. The thesis shows how a system of political oppression …
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The Impact of Migration of People on Natural Resources in Ruvuma River Valley, in Ruvuma Region
… available is forest and green pastures, 95% said fertile land, 89% said rivers and ponds, 67% talked about fishes. In this study 66 respondents were used. Data collection methods used in the study comprised review of secondary data, administering of questionnaires, focus group discussions and …
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The textile industry in early eighteenth century Lancashire
… study of occupations recorded in Church of England parish registers for the I 720s, a source which has, with the exception of a few localised case studies, hitherto been ignored by historians. Whilst this period is crucial to the subsequent development of the textile industry, much work to date …
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Ingonyuluka ngelingafelwa nkonyane kwaMhlabuyalingana kwelaseMakhathini
… This research demonstrates the core idea of the fertile land of abundance of KwaMhlabuyalingana, economy, culture and values of this area. Furthermore it also looks at how livestock and crops flourish in this area. Chapter one introduces the entire research and its aims. It also introduces the …
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
… assets range from the natural-sheltered ports, fertile land--to the constructed--concrete and cement, institutions and people. This dissertation examines the effects of one of these assets, urban rail, on residential location and travel behavior, from the era of horsecars and streetcars to the …
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Water Urbanism: Fish Market Design Proposal
… opportunities for tradeand transportation, fertile land to grow crops, water for drinking, washing, livestock and other domestic uses and food in the form of fish. Gradually, they came to define cities, became a part of identities of people, such as "India" from "Indus," while, providing a …
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Resources, Environment, and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913
… as on present-day scientific literature on grassland ecology. My approach is methodologically eclectic, and techniques vary as suits the diversity of the materials and the questions asked in each chapter. These include different quantitative methods (from descriptive statistics to regression …
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The state of the property market in the Kingdom of Eswatini: trends since independence
… living in the peri-urban areas are now selling land meant for other uses such as farming and grazing. This is done without due consideration for the protection of crop fields, animal grazing land and water sources. The study seeks to establish an effective pathway to facilitating sustainable …
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The Natal government's policy towards amakhosi in the former Kingdom of KwaZulu 1846-1910
… Voortrekkers. They renamed their newly acquired land as Natal. Three years later a Boundary Commission was instituted with a clear mandate to demarcate boundaries. The results were very unfavourable to the African people in Natal. Fertile land was given to white people, while Africans were …
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The compulsion of the apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… the system technically began with the 1913 Land Act which set aside eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the most fertile land for white South Africans, leaving behind only thirteen per cent (13%) to be shared by the majority black Africans. This unequivocally generated a socio-political crisis in …
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The compulsion of the Apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… the system technically began with the 1913 Land Act which set aside eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the most fertile land for white South Africans, leaving behind only thirteen per cent (13%) to be shared by the majority black Africans. This unequivocally generated a socio-political crisis in …