Natural Resources Management in African Agriculture :Understanding and Improving Current Practices

Publication subTitle :Understanding and Improving Current Practices

Author: Barrett   C.B.;Place   F.;Aboud   A.A.  

Publisher: CABI Publishing‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9780851998824

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851995847

Subject: F0 Economics;F3 Agricultural Economy

Keyword: Economics Agriculture and Related Industries

Language: ENG

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Description

This book consists of selected, edited and revised papers from a workshop held at ICRAF (International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) in July 2000.

Chapter

2 Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management

3 The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity

4 Farmers’ Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria1,2

5 Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa

6 Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia

7 Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants’ Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity

8 Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants

9 Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa

10 Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger

11 Smallholder Farmers’ Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya1

12 Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia

13 Evaluating Adoption of New Crop–Livestock–Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa

14 Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar

15 Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali

16 Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers’ Practices

17 Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa

18 A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop–Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia

19 Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant–Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems

20 Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa

21 Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research

22 Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture

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