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    Food Systems under Stress (FSUS) Project: Country Profile: Botswana
    ( 1994-04) The Botswana FSUS Team
    Botswana, with a total land area of 582,000 km2, is landlocked sharing borders with the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Much of Botswana has been described as "flat with gentle undulations and occasional rocky outcrops". The thick and sandy layers of the Kgalagadi desert cover more than two-thirds of the country. Botswana is situated close to the subtropical high pressure belt of the Southern hemisphere. The country is as a result largely arid or semi-arid. The mean annual rainfall ranges from 650 mm in the extreme north-east to less than 250 mm in the extreme south west. The country's main natural resources are range and arable, wildlife, and minerals especially diamonds. Arable land covers only 5 per cent of Botswana's land area with the best arable land occurring in the east, in the freehold farming areas. However, unreliable rainfall has made arable agriculture a risky business. Extensive beef production occurs in the country since a good size of Botswana's land is suitable for cattle ranching purposes (MFDP, 1991, pp.3 and 5).
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    Food Systems under Stress (FSUS) Project: Country Profile: Botswana
    ( 1994-04) The Botswana FSUS Team
    Botswana, with a total land area of 582,000 km2, is landlocked sharing borders with the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Much of Botswana has been described as "flat with gentle undulations and occasional rocky outcrops". The thick and sandy layers of the Kgalagadi desert cover more than two-thirds of the country. Botswana is situated close to the subtropical high pressure belt of the Southern hemisphere. The country is as a result largely arid or semi-arid. The mean annual rainfall ranges from 650 mm in the extreme north-east to less than 250 mm in the extreme south west. The country's main natural resources are range and arable, wildlife, and minerals especially diamonds. Arable land covers only 5 per cent of Botswana's land area with the best arable land occurring in the east, in the freehold farming areas. However, unreliable rainfall has made arable agriculture a risky business. Extensive beef production occurs in the country since a good size of Botswana's land is suitable for cattle ranching purposes (MFDP, 1991, pp.3 and 5).
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    An analysis of the Agro-industry in Uganda and its role in economic development
    ( 1965) Makerere Institute of Social Research
    Uganda's major industry is agriculture and most non-farm production and service is related to agriculture. Nearly ninety per--cent of the population lives in rural areas. A large share of the industrial employment in centres like Jinja and Kampala is in agricultural processing and service industry. The development of agro-industrial setup certainly facilitates the training of workers. Such training in effect enhances economic mobility in the direction of urbanization. This in turn will fundamentally affect both the family organization and industrial relations in the society. The importance of understanding the moving forces of such structural changes in the process of change and development cannot be over-emphasized. Within the nexus' of the agro-industrial development areas' the special problem connected with the so called 'target workers and their relations with the 'host' group. Connected with this relationship- is the issue; of the land tenure system which all affect the productivity of agriculture.
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    An analysis of the Agro-industry in Uganda and its role in economic development
    ( 1965) Makerere Institute of Social Research
    Uganda's major industry is agriculture and most non-farm production and service is related to agriculture. Nearly ninety per--cent of the population lives in rural areas. A large share of the industrial employment in centres like Jinja and Kampala is in agricultural processing and service industry. The development of agro-industrial setup certainly facilitates the training of workers. Such training in effect enhances economic mobility in the direction of urbanization. This in turn will fundamentally affect both the family organization and industrial relations in the society. The importance of understanding the moving forces of such structural changes in the process of change and development cannot be over-emphasized. Within the nexus' of the agro-industrial development areas' the special problem connected with the so called 'target workers and their relations with the 'host' group. Connected with this relationship- is the issue; of the land tenure system which all affect the productivity of agriculture.
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    Settlement and resettlement experience from Uganda’s National parks, game reserves and forest reserves
    ( 1994) Marquardt, Mark A
    In Uganda the need for and justification of population resettlement has risen from a number of aspects related to the country’s economic setting. The existence of agricultural land of high potential but low population densities; settlement on land cleared of tse tse infestation as a mechanism to prevent resurgence of the fly; forced or persuaded movement of people from areas of high population densities.