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Rural Life & Agri'

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* Small Farm 1
* Small Farm 2
* Commercial Farm
* Non Trad' Farm
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Rural Life and Agriculture Resources

In order to facilitate your understanding of the issues and theories relating to farming and rural life a number of resources have been provided. Much of the data is used in the worksheets but you may find the time series data given below for Zambia useful as a source of evidence.

Data
The following datasets are specifically related to the issues covered on this rural life and agriculture tour. They can be downloaded from the resources section of the site.

Data set
Coffee prices
Illiteracy rates by gender
Official exchange rates
Exports of coffee
Comparison of GDP Indicators
Amount of land cultivating maize
Production of leading agricultural cash crops
Use and import of fertilizer
Imports of food
Comparative living standards indicators
Agriculture as % of GDP and employment
Comparison of life expectancy of males and females
Cut flower Imports into the European Union

Worksheets

There are also a number of worksheets associated with the tour:

Agriculture
Cycle of Poverty
GDP and Living standards

There is also a full listing of all the theories and all the issues considered in this Rural Life and Agriculture Tour.

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