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Natural resources management in African agriculture
understanding and improving current practices
Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan)
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
1 online resource (xv, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
This book synthesizes existing information on the adoption of natural resource management investments and strategies (such as soil fertility improvements or erosion control) for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. It also critically examines current analytical methods and generates research and policy recommendations. Topics covered include: farmers' objectives and learning processes; willingness and capacity to make long-term investments; economic incentives and the importance of the resource base; and the agroecological, institutional and policy contexts. The book has 22 chapters and a subject index.
The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture / C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown -- Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management / J. Pretty and L. Buck -- The Limits of Knowledge : Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity / P.E. Peters -- Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria / A.A. Adesina and J. Chianu -- Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa / G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali -- Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia / B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton -- Poverty and Land Degradation : Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity / S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw -- Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda : Patterns and Determinants / D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon -- Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa / C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro -- Liquidity and Soil Management : Evidence from Madagascar and Niger / TJ Wyatt -- Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies : Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya / H.A. Freeman and R. Coe -- Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment : Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia / F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and B. Jama -- 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 / P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and B.B. Singh -- Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management : Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar / M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger -- Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies : Lessons from Mali / V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight -- Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania : Government Policy and Farmers' Practices / N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza -- Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa / M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington -- A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems : the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia / B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell -- Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems : Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems / L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe -- Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa / B.I. Shapiro and J.H. Sanders -- Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research / F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett -- Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture / C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud.
edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University, USA, Frank Place, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kenya and Abdillahi A. Aboud, Egerton University, Kenya.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and index.
Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry
Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000)
Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002)
Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002.