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The conservation and rehabilitation of African lands
(Fosbrooke, 1986) Fosbrooke, H. A
African nations face many problems. In the long term, perhaps the most serious is that of land degradation. The African economy depends on the continent's forests, pastures and croplands; all are now threatened with degradation. The importance of this issue was highlighted in the 1986 FAO study African Agriculture: the next 25 years. One of the major recommendations of this study was that a conservation strategy should be developed for the continent. With the assistance of African experts, FAO has followed up this recommendation. The result is the International Scheme outlined in this publication. Land cannot be reclaimed or conserved through sporadic efforts or short-term projects; what are needed are long-term programmes, backed by sound land-use policies, and strategies to catalyse their development. To succeed, these programmes must be founded on the concept of participation; ultimately, African land can be conserved and rehabilitated only by those who make their living from it. The purpose of the International Scheme for the Conservation and Rehabilitation of African Lands is to provide a means by which African countries can develop their own programmes to fight land degradation. The Scheme is specifically designed to enable countries to tailor these programmes to meet their individual needs. Currently, African nations face severe financial constraints and lack enough trained workers and inputs to undertake programmes of the scale required. Fortunately, technical assistance and financing agencies are keen to help—providing they can do so within programmes likely to enjoy long-term success. This Scheme therefore includes a mechanism which enables African governments and these organizations to work in partnership. I commend this Scheme to governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations. For its part, FAO intends to support and coordinate the Scheme with the vigour and enthusiasm that it merits.
Director's report for the Year Ending 31st March, 1959
(Fosbrooke, 1959) Fosbrooke, H. A
This Institute differs from its counterparts in East and ’.Vest Africa and the Caribbean in not being attached to a University College, This means that we have not only to conduct research, but have also to bear a greater burden in ensuring that the results of such research are generally known and utilized. This was early recognized by those responsible for Institute policy, "who defined our duties in the terms set out at the commencement of this report, page i. It is the object of the succeeding paragraphs to describe how we have set about the triple task of research, the provision of fact and the dissemination of knowledge and to record the successes and failures we have met with during the past year.
Director’s report for the year ending 31st march, 1958
(Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1958) Fosbrooke, H. A
The feature of the year was undoubtedly the greater impact of the Institute in particular and social research in general on Governments, commercial enterprise and private individuals throughout Central Africa. In the days when the greater proportion of the funds came from Colonial Development and Welfare there was, it is felt, a tendency amongst the local people to regard social research as something outside their orbit which they neither paid nor cared for. The commencement of the new attitude can, I think, be traced to Sir Arthur Benson’s appeal which was so successful in obtaining local funds and stimulating local interest in social research. Another event of the first importance in this connection was the establishment of the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, with which the Institute’s relations are close and cordial. This awakening interest has been stimulated by the large number of talks given by the Institute’s staff to meetings and over the radio, and to the courses and groups detailed below who have visited the Institute during the year.
Economic commission for Africa seminar on human environment Addis Ababa, 23-28 august 1971
(Fosbrooke, 1971) Fosbrooke, H. A
The dawn of man’s emergence as the dominant species on our planet. It is indeed inseparable from the story of man’s own development. But it is only recently that ’’environment” has become a public issue on a global scale. It first arose in the highly industrialized societies in which concern centered on the adverse consequences of many of the varied practices and technologies which have produced their unprecedented affluence of those societies. In this context, it is not surprising that many people in the developing countries questioned the relevance of this new concern for environment to their own compellingly urgent development priorities. They asked if it was really a disease of wealthy societies - why they should be concerned with it at all, especially at this preliminary stage of their own development. Indeed, some suggested that if more industry meant more pollution they would welcome more pollution. But at the same time they asked how the actions taken by the more industrialized countries would affect their own interests, what was likely to be the availability of the technical assistance, and what would happen to the markets they require for their own development. They asked what attention was to be given to the kind of environmental problems which directly affected them.
Environment and Development Profiles of SIDA's 17 focal countries and their long-term project implications for the Agency
(n.p., 1987) Fosbrooke, H. A
Worldwide, a conflict festers over access to productive natural resources and their harmonious use. This is the environment/ development challenge that the recent World Commission on Environment and Development highlights. Competition for resources is, on one hand, as old as humankind. On the other, the conflict takes on heightened intensity in the late 20th century.
Fisheries in arusha region, Tanzania
(Fosbrooke, 1980) Fosbrooke, H. A
Arusha Region does not have a tradition of fishing despite its large areas of freshwater lakes. The Regional Fisheries Officer (R.F.O.) reports that many of the lakes contained no indigenous species and introductions of tilapia and catfish were started in the late 1 940's and 1950’s. The introduced species came from Malya fish ponds near Mwanza and Hombolo Dam near Dodoma. Fishing seems to have taken some years to become established and may even have started in some areas by fishermen from southern Tanzania moving north to exploit these new fishing areas. Commercially fishing, some thirty years later, is now firmly established in several Districts along with the associated processing and marketing "industries”.
Identification of a problem
(Fosbrooke, 1990) Fosbrooke, H. A
The threat of desertification in central Tanzania is a very real one. Fortunately in most of the area concerned it is still a threat rather than a reality. This is no reason for delaying action. On the contrary thousands of shillings spent now will save millions of shillings in the very near future."A stitch in time saves nine" "Usipoziba ufa utajenga ukuta".
The Impact of modern technology and internal Aid on the Montane - Plains Complex of Northern Tanzania
(Fosbrooke, 1980) Fosbrooke, H. A
The area under consideration lies immediately south of Kenya through which country the equator runs* The districts dealt with are Kilimanjaro and Fare in the Kilimanjaro Region, presided over by a Regional Commissioner in Moshi, and the Arusha, Mbulu and Masai Districts of the Arusha Region. Arusha itself is the rapidly developing headquarters of the newly established hast African community.
Information on the Pelotshetlha area
(Fosbrooke, 1972) Fosbrooke, H. A
Pelotshetlha is a Kanye lands area consisting of 20 wards. The population of 434 families is distributed among the wards. Houses are scattered throughout an area of approximately 32 000 hectares, with no well- defined communal focal point.
Institute for Social Research Director's report for year ending 31st March, 1957
(Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1957) Fosbrooke, H. A
Last year’s report described how Scheme R.370 was drawing to a close: financial provision ceased under this scheme as from the 31st March, 1956, though some workers remained on contract for several months, whilst much of the research work arising from the scheme remains to be published. The inauguration of the new scheme, R.698, involved by its very nature many radical changes. For the basis of the new Colonial Development and Welfare grant is that U.K. funds will be available for the maintenance of the Central Office, provided that local resources make a commensurate contribution towards the cost of field research. This virtually reverses the previous ratio of 70 per cent, funds from overseas to 30 per cent, local.
Institute of Resource Assessment: publications list
(Institute of Resource Assessment, 1985) Fosbrooke, H. A
Publications List. For explanation of price code and information on ordering, see final page o-f this Publications List
An international campaign and appeal to help and save this endangered species
(Fosbrooke, 1980) Fosbrooke, H. A
The rhinoceros has walked the earth for sixty million years but is now in danger of extinction at the hands of its only enemy-MAN. The three species of Asian rhino are already reduced to relict populations. The African White Rhinoceros has been made reasonably secure in Southern Africa through effective conservation measures, but elsewhere in its range is seriously endangered.
Introducing the Camel into the Drylands of Tanzania
(Fosbrooke, 1987) Fosbrooke, H. A
The development objective is to attain a sustainable land use system in the drylands of Tanzania which would safeguard the regeneration capability of the natural resources. The immediate objectives are 1.To make the Kaasai pastoralists Get acquainted with the skills of camel keeping 2. To introduce a herd of about twenty camels from Kenya after investigating into the appropriate 3. Breeds for the Tanzanian environmental conditions, to train maasai herders on camel keeping and enable the trainees to procure camels at favourable conditions.
Irangi circumcision ceremony
(Fosbrooke, 1977) Fosbrooke, H. A
A straight account of a circumcision ceremony would be more at home in an ethnographic work than in a thesis dealing with land, population, and the adjustments of the social system consequent on expansion. The reason for the inclusion of this description in the present work is that the ceremony described possesses unique features arising from the very causes enumerated above. It is the first ceremony performed in an expansion area which has come to be inhabited largely through Government influence and encouragement during the last twenty years.
Jordan's experience in combating desertification
(Fosbrooke, 1980) Fosbrooke, H. A
In Resolution 3337 (XXIX) on international cooperation to combat desertification the General Assembly of the United nations requested an assessment and evaluation of all available data relating to the desertification processes and the effect of these processes on economic development with a view to the formulation of an integrated overall plan of action to combat desertification in the world.
Kimwani : general topography
(Fosbrooke, 1980) Fosbrooke, H. A
The country of Kimwani is comprised of a strip of coast, ranning from Ruiga Bay in the Forth to Nyamirembe Fay in the South. It is bounded on the East by the Victoria Nyanza and on the West, from Chota Bay, to the headwaters of its tributary the Kanone, by the river Ruiga. Thence the boundary persues an ill defined course at the base of the Kusubi foot hills, and joins the coast below Nyamirembe Fay. Inclusive of the Ruiga promontory it is some J5 miles long, and in no place more than 10 miles broad. A number of islands are included in the Sultanate.
Library-anthropology resource group (LARG) international dictionary of anthropologists
(Fosbrooke, 1972) Fosbrooke, H. A
LARG - the Library-Anthropology Resource Group — is currently compiling an international biographical dictionary of contributors to anthropology who were born before 1920. The dictionary will contain information on approximately one thousand people. There will be entries not only for academics but also for travelers, colonial administrators, missionaries, "native" informants, museum curators, and so on. Each entry will include summary biographical data, a description of the biographee’s role in anthropology, a list of his/her major publications, and a bibliography of published sources of further information. (See next page for sample entry.) Anthropology is defined in its American sense to include ethnology, archeology, folklore, physical anthropology and certain branches of linguistics. For information, please contact: Christopher Winters, LARG Editorial-Coordinator, Bibliographer for Anthropology, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (tel.: (312) 702-8147).
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: On grass-root participation in management
(Fosbrooke, 1994) Fosbrooke, H. A
The management of Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) have throughout the years completely failed to address one out of three components of the multiple land use philosophy, namely pastoral development. This has generally been blamed on the lack of approved management plans. On the contrary I will argue thai this is due to lack of commitment on behalf of the Ngorongoro Conservation area Authority (NCAA), as well as a poor management structure. I will furthermore argue that unless NCAA restructure its management and thoroughly commit itself to pastoral development and local participation, the preparation and even endorsement of yet another management plan will be useless as a tool for addressing the critical situation faced by the Maasai residing in NCA.
Ngorongoro’s geological history
(Ngorongoro Conservation Unit, 1968) Pickering, P.; Fosbrooke, H. A
Many readers of this series will it is hoped buy these booklets in the course of their visits to Ngorongoro, but for those who like to read about a place before they go there, or who are interested in the area but unable to visit it, the following general notes should prove of interest. Ngorongoro is a volcanic crater, or more properly caldera, situated in the Arusha Region of Tanzania, approximately 35c30' East and 3°15' South, being 112 miles west of Arusha and 290 miles by road from Nairobi. The average height of the rim is about 7.600 feet and of the floor 5,600 feet, giving a depth of 2,000 feet, with a diameter ranging between 10 and 12 miles, and a floor of 102 square miles. It has been claimed that this makes it the largest caldera in the world, but Prof. Tamura, Chairman of the Nature Conservation Society of Japan and a member of the Ngorongoro Advisory Board, has kindly provided the information about the world's largest calderas.
Notes on interview granted by H.E the president to H.A. Fosbrooke on 18th February, 1969
(Fosbrooke, 1969) Fosbrooke, H. A
Mr. Fosbrooke explained that he was leaving Zambia to take up an F.A.O assignment in Botswana as the Kafue Basin Survey, of which he had been Co-manager for nearly three years, was complete, and no follow-up had yet been worked out to justify his continued employment in Zambia.

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