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Title:Soil conservation and implications of the land husbandry act
Author:Robinson, D.A.
Year:1960
Periodical:Nada: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department Annual
Volume:37
Pages:27-55
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subject:erosion
Abstract:The problems posed by the increase of the African population of Southern Rhodesia were: Reserves too heavily populated for shifting agriculture; the countryside denudated o bush; fertility non maintained; erosion evident. Furthermore many grazing areas were over.stocked. The object of the Land Husbandry Act of 1951 was to restore a balance between food production and population increase. The present article deals with the inplementation of the act and the results till now achieved. Illustrations. Ref. 'What the native land husbandry act means to the rural african and to southern Rhodesia' (Government Printers, Salisbury).