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PubMed1990

"Ghana faces ecological disaster".

The rate of deforestation in Ghana is alarming and urgent steps need to be taken to reverse the trend, Robert D. Mann, a British tropical agriculturist, has warned. He says, "There will be further disintegration of the local climate, deterioration of soil fertility and reduced food-crop production, if the present trend of denudation by felling trees and uncontrolled bush fires is not halted and reversed." Mann, who has conducted research on "deforestation, drought and famine in Africa" was in Ghana recently to speak on the "role of the Church in West Africa in stimulating action to combat desertification". Representatives of protestant churches in Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Gambia, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone attended the 3-day conference which was organized by the Overseas Department of the British Methodist Church. It was to enable participants to share perspectives on the nature, scale and seriousness of the deforestation problem. Participants also exchanged experiences on village-based projects for promoting tree planting and agro-forestry, and developed strategies for the rural development programs. Robert Mann noted that Ghana was not only affected by its proximity to the Sahel, but also by its own deforestation. The situation in Ghana, once renowned for her extensive forests and woodland, has now drastically changed. By 1980/81 the area of closed forest had been reduced to 17,000 sq km from 47,9000 sq km in 1937/38. He said in 1939 the volume of wood exported from Ghana was 42,450 cubic meters but it rose to 1,471,600 cubic meters by 1987. Such activities, Mann said, put severe strain on the environment and affected both the economy and sociocultural basis of the country.

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PubMed2000

[Protocol for sampling of Chinese food and nutrition surveillance system (CFNSS)].

Based on the 145-site Disease Surveillance Point System (DSP) of the Ministry of Health in conjunction with 600-site Urban/Rural Household Socio-economic Survey System of State Statistic Bureau carried out by the Urban Household Socio-Economic Survey Team and Rural Household Socio-Economic Survey Team. Three strata including urban, general rural and less-developed rural were defined. Sample size of 16,000 children was designed according to the estimate of 5% underweight prevalence of children under 6 years of age. 40 sites were sampled by stratified random sampling, involving 14 urban sites, 17 general rural sites and 9 poor rural sites in 26 provinces. The total population of the 40 sites is 20.678 million, which is 1.7% of whole population of the country. 400 children under 6 years of age were sampled by Multi-stage Cluster Sampling at each site. The consistency of age distribution of children between the sample and the National Population Census data in 1990 by Goodness of Fit Test indicated the representativeness of the sample is reliable.

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