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Zimbabwe, a country with an area of 391,000 sq.km, has a population of about 9.5 million people, increasing at the rate of three per cent per annum. Nearly 80 percent of the country's population lives in the Communal Areas.
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Tagwira, F. (1998). Soil Erosion and Conservation Techniques for Sustainable Crop Production in Zimbabwe. In: Ahmed, A.G.M., Mlay, W. (eds) Environment and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26643-2_8
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