Integrated freshwater aquaculture, crop and livestock production in the Mekong delta, Vietnam: Determinants and the role of the pond

Local knowledge is an important asset for smallholder farmers who operate differently in diverse crop and livestock production systems in the tropics. Various methods are needed for its acquisition, analysis, storage and communication. While local knowledge of livestock feeds and other resources is abundant, amalgamation of the positive aspects of this knowledge system with that emanating from contemporary scientific approaches is critical yet limited. The merger is desirable so as to achieve improved productivity and sustainability of mixed livestock production systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Some Legal Aspects

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00012258 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 585-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Gino J. Naldi

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Land Reform ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Legal Aspects ◽

Livestock Production ◽

Declaration Of Independence ◽

Unilateral Declaration ◽

Liberation Movements ◽

Crop And Livestock Production ◽

Trust Lands

The Government of Zimbabwe has only recently begun to implement the commitment of the liberation movements to give land to poor ‘communal’ farmers, especially those dispossessed by the whiteminority régime after Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. It needs to be recalled that by virtue of the Land Tenure Act of 1969 almost half of the country's agricultural land was allocated to Europeans, who had ‘greater access to the regions considered suited to intensive crop and livestock production’, and that ‘On average, each of the nearly 7,000 European farms was roughly 100 times the size of any of the 700,000 or so holdings in the Tribal Trust Lands’. The fact that much of this land was under-utilised only served to increase African resentment.

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The role of inbreeding depression in livestock production systems

Livestock Production Science ◽

10.1016/0301-6226(93)90053-k ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 203-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

L.T. Gama ◽

C. Smith

Keyword(s):

Inbreeding Depression ◽

Production Systems ◽

Livestock Production

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Meat as a matter of fact(s): the role of science in everyday representations of livestock production on social media

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.18060201 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (06) ◽

pp. A01 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ulrika Olausson

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Representation Theory ◽

Case Studies ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Livestock Production ◽

Social Representation ◽

Online Discussions ◽

Social Representation Theory ◽

Strong Position

In recent times we have allegedly witnessed a “post-truth” turn in society. Nonetheless, surveys show that science holds a relatively strong position among lay publics, and case studies suggest that science is part of their online discussions about environmental issues on social media — an important, yet strikingly under-researched, debate forum. Guided by social representation theory, this study aims to contribute knowledge about the role of science in everyday representations of livestock production on social media. The analysis identifies two central themata, namely lay publics' contestations of (1) facts and non-facts, and (2) factual and non-factual sources.

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