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| Title: | Fighting Poverty Together: The Gambia |
| ASFA Terms: | Rural development |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2002 |
| Publisher: | Actionaid |
| Abstract: | ActionAid began operating in The Gambia in
1979. We work mainly with subsistence
farmers in over 600 villages in three rural
areas, shown on the map below.
Groundnuts provide 85 per cent of the
country’s export earnings. The main food
crops are maize and rice, but poor people
living in rural areas cannot produce enough
food for themselves. This is due to inappropriate farming techniques,
environmental degradation and natural
disasters, such as drought and floods. The
removal of agricultural subsidies and
liberalisation of the groundnut trade in the
1980s caused increased hardship for
farmers. Low levels of literacy, leading to lack
of skills and slow technological progress, also
cause poverty. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/687 |
| Related document: | http://www.actionaid-gambia.org/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous
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