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    Agricultural development in drought-prone Africa conference: In Overseas Development Adrministration: paper 5
    (Fosbrooke, 1985) Davies, J. C.
    Drought prone Africa can be largely equated with the Semi-Arid Tropics of Troll's Classification. It is the home of some 6-700 million people and is characterised by a climate in which there are 2-7 humid months and a rainfall of 500-1,500 mm. (A humid months is one in which rainfall exceeds evapotranspiration). There is an arid season of 5-10 months and this is important in the context of pests and their seasonal carryover. The erratic nature of the rainfall and high arid season temperatures are also important in the context of pests and crop protection since these obviously affect plant growth and hence food and host availability for pests.
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    Confidential Suspicion
    (Fosbrooke, 1953) Fosbrooke, Henry A.
    This paper quotes some cases in which the African finds difficulty in comprehending the European attitude, particularly in the matter of land rights. In the absence of adequate or logical explanation, (if in fact such exists) it is inevitable that misunderstandings breed suspicion. This is not a problem confined to Tanganyika, nor to Africa. Nor is it an inevitable concomitant of culture contact and the development of backward peoples, as cases are cited to show. The dispersal of this suspicion should be regarded as a major problem, besides which the short-term advantages accruing from a course of action, which may engender suspicion shrink: into insignificance. The prolonged existence of a multi-racial society depends on the early discovery of a solution
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    East Africa and Rhodesia
    (British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, 1956) EL Mahdi, Abdel Rahman
    In one night last week 189 African cotton growers in the kosti Districts of the Sudan,some 200 miles south of khartoum,died in an army barracks,and some of the survivor were in danger of death
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    Inaugural meeting of the inter-territorial project committee on environmental conservation education in central and east Africa
    (Fosbrooke, 1971) Sekgoma, M
    The republic of Botswana is situated in central southern Africa. It shares common borders with Zambia, Rhodesia, the Republic of south Africa, southern-west Africa and Caprivi Strip. its total area is 220,000 square miles. Physiographic ally, Botswana is an elevated basin having altitude of 3,000 - 4,000 feet. There are no perennial rivers except the Okovango and Chobe in the north east. Intermittent streams drain the eastern strip of Botswana into the Limpopo river, but virtually all other drainage is into pans, notably the extensive Makarikari Pans, where evaporation balances or exceeds inflow.
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    Pastoral land tenure in east Africa
    (Fosbrooke, 1988) Fosbrooke, Henry A
    A workshop on pastoral land tenure in east Africa, attended by 28 representatives of pastoral groups, non-governmental organizations working in pastoral areas and others, from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, was help at the Danish volunteer training center in Arusha, from 1-3 December 1988. The participants are listed in appendix 1. The workshop was funded by ford foundation and organizes by Jeremy swift and Charles Lane from the Institute if Development Studies, University if Sussex, who also edited this report which summarizes the discussions and the conclusion of the workshop.
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    Slaughter in Africa
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1981) Fitzgerald, Mary, Anne
    Booming international prices for ivory and rhino horn have led to indiscriminate killing on an unprecedented scale. In north-east Zaire; where elephants once trumpeted their shattering call, the forest along one stretch of the Zaire River is eerily silent. Spreading hundreds of square miles around Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), the capital, is the site of a 1978 wildlife massacre whose consequences are only now becoming fully known. According to a study by conservation organizations, gangs of poachers working in collusion with corrupt government officials dumped an estimated 20 tons of pesticide into animal water-holes. Their motive was to kill off the region’s thousands of elephants and ship their tusks to the lucrative ivory markets of Europe and the Far East. The Kisangani massacre is a sickening reminder that no animals
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    Zur ethnographie des abflusslosogebietes Deutsch - Ostafrikas, auf grund der sammlung der Ostafrika-expedition (Dr. E. Obst) der Geographischen gesellschaft in Hamburg
    (L. Friederichsen and Company, 1914) Reche, Otto
    In the matter of the origin and the age of the kondoa erosion problems intersting data are available from the records of the German Georgrapher Dr.Erich Obst,who recored his observation concerning the condition of the country as he saw it in 1911/12 on the map which accompanied his articles.