Computer Assisted Planning Method for Small Representative' Farms in Developing Countries

Mwape, Faustin (1978) Computer Assisted Planning Method for Small Representative' Farms in Developing Countries. Masters thesis, University of Zambia.

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Abstract

Increasingly, the need to improve and expand food production in developing countries is recognized to be of highest priority. The population in most of the developing countries continues to grow faster than food production. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has projected that three quarters of the world's population will be in developing countries in the year 2000 and developing countries will continue to produce less than 30 percent of the world food (28). If the projections hold, then there will be a severe food imbalance in developing countries. This means that developed countries must transport more food to developing countries, probably on concessionary terms as in the past, because these countries do not have the foreign exchange to pay, or increase food production in developing countries. The inadequate food production in developing countries has been accompanied by a growing dependence on food imports, mainly from developed countries. In the 1960's the rate of growth of the value of food imports (excluding fish) both in terms of current and constant prices of developing countries was slightly lower than that of developed countries, but in the 1970's the situation was completely reversed (see Table I). The value (at constant prices) of food imports of developing countries increased at an average annual rate which nearly

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Geoffrey Obatsa
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2019 14:25
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2019 14:25
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9144

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