Norfolk livestock farming 1250-1740 : a comparative study of manorial accounts and probate inventories
Agricultural productivity ; Arable land ; England ; Farm size ; Farming system ; Historical geography ; Livestock ; Livestock farming ; Middle Age ; Modern period ; Norfolk ; Pastoral ; United Kingdom
The evidence of accounts and inventories reveals the continuity of developed and dynamic pastoral farming systems in Norfolk. From an early date, the distructive feature of livestock farming was its close integration with arable farming, producing
Agricultural practice ; Farming system ; Farming;Agriculture ; Kenya ; Mount Kenya ; Mountain ; Mountain farming ; Peasantry
Farmers who to semi-arid Laikipia District maintain humid land-use practices unsuitable to this zone. Interview surveys of household strategies of small-scale farmers and off-farm employment opportunities point to the need for a socioeconomic
The study subject refers summary spatial differentiation of communes in relation to the basic functions and types of individual farming in Poland. The goal was to investigate relation between the functional structure and agricultural types
of individual farming elaborated at the communal level. - (DG)
Agricultural land use ; Cameroon ; Environment ; Mountain ; Mountain farming ; Over-grazing ; Soil degradation ; Soil erosion
In the 1970s Bamileke peasants moved into the Bamboutos mountains to farm. Now densely populated, agriculture on steep slopes has led to serious soil erosion. The land has also been overgrazed, and there are conflicts between farmers
Cal Parisa basin (eastern Spain), was selected as a representative of extensive areas on clayey bedrock formerly used for farming, nowadays almost abandoned, where badlands are of great importance as far as sediment production is concerned.
This article is an attempt to explain how the development problems currently being experienced by farmers in the new Federal States are entwined with the 45-year history of the former GDR. - (L'A.).