"The construction of the Great Green Wall across Africa should be the motor for international co-operation, both at the national and at the communal level, with the objective of fighting poverty," André, who is from Senegal, told IPS. "The objective of the project is more than stopping desertification," he added.
Since each of the facial mesh models were obtained independently and the sizes of the face components differ from one individual to another and at different orientations, before any meaningful comparison can be made possible between them, the features from such meshes need to be aligned to a common coordinate system and normalized to a communal scale so that objective measurement is feasible[20].
communal living; communalism". .
Thatcher went to Dublin, in November 1979, with the single-minded intention of reducing the UK contribution to the communal budget by £1bn, an objective she pursued at the risk of wrecking the summit.
This was later extended by the National Policy on Agricultural Development (NPAD) of 1991 through intensification and expansion of TGLP objectives into all communal areas.
The main objective of establishing exclosures on communal grazing lands is to improve the overall ecological conditions of the degraded areas so that they can provide better environmental and socioeconomic benefits to the local communities.
Hence, the recent development of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa aims at establishing vast ecosystems encompassing protected areas of various statuses (e.g. national parks, conservancies) and communal land so as to fulfil development and conservation objectives.
While estimates show that about 80%% of Botswana's beef exports are from communal grazing areas, unfortunately, communal livestock farmers with different production objectives are often seen and treated passively - only to be involved in FMD-vaccination campaigns and during the actual outbreak to contain and curb the spread of the disease.
Our participatory approach for defining research objectives and collecting data to directly inform management guidelines for communal lands, while using robust analytical tools, shows great potential for promoting sustainable working landscapes in biodiverse regions across the globe.
The main objectives of this study were to (1) test Donald's concept of communal ideotype in maize, and (2) determine the specific changes in competitiveness of maize hybrids due to breeding.
