Shifting cultivation in Africa(evaluation of questionnaires)

For some time FAO has been repeatedly requested at various conferences and ether meetings to take initiative, in conjunction with its member countries, in the problem of shifting cultivation and the need for increased agricultural production. As one of the follow-up actions of the Third Conference on Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use in Africa, Addis Ababa, November 1970, on which occasion these problems were discussed in more detail, questionnaires on shifting cultivation and soil conservation were sent out in 1971 to the Member Countries of FAO's African Region. Replies were received from ten countries, i.e. Peoples ^ Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Kali, Niger, Uganda Zaire and Zambia. In other countries shifting cultivation was either not practiced or the subject matter personnel was occupied by other problems. This evaluation cannot claim to be complete but can however be considered in some cases as a preliminary link with some countries not present at the Geminar, especially with those of French expression.