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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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