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  title info:
    title: Transforming agriculture in southern Africa
    sub title: constraints, technologies, policies and processes
  name:
    name part: Sikora, Richard A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Terry, E. R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Vlek, Paul L. G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Chitja, Joyce
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 323 pages).
  abstract: "The book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges which face agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Agriculture and food security in Southern Africa are facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges place great pressure on water and other natural resources, plus for biodiversity. The chapters in this book consider all these challenge from an interdisciplinary perspective, coverings key areas in constraints to production, the most important building blocks of good farming practices, and established and emerging technologies. This will be valuable to help support and inform new policies and processes, farmers from small to medium sized farms in improving food production and security, and new approached, such as sustainable intensification. This concise and informative volume will be key reading for those interested in agricultural science, African studies, rural studies, development studies, geography and sustainability. It will also be a valuable resource for policy makers, governmental and non-governmental organizations and agricultural practitioners"--
  table of contents: Introduction / Richard A. Sikora, Eugene R. Terry, Paul L. G. Vlek and Joyce Chitja -- The strategic role of agriculture in the economic space of the Southern Africa Region / Elisabeth Ransom, Jennifer Cockerill, Elizabeth R. Weatherly -- Twice as many people in 2050: the need for agricultural transformation in Southern Africa / Reiner Klingholz -- Climate change impact on agriculture in Southern Africa / Paul L.G. Vlek, Eugene Terry and Richard A. Sikora -- Land rich but water poor: the prospects for agricultural intensification Southern Africa / Paul L. G. Vlek and Janos Bogardi -- The 60-percent giveaway: farmers and biological constraints / Richard A. Sikora, Johnney Berg and Erich Oerke -- The impact of global and regional markets on agricultural transformation in Southern Africa / Ferdi Meyer, Tracy Davids and Nick Vink -- Soil fertility -- maintenance and nutrient management for agricultural transformation / Bernard Vanlauwe, Pauline Chivenge and Shamie Zingore -- The Role of Seed Systems Development in African Agricultural Transformation / Joseph D. DeVries -- Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture for agricultural transformation in Southern Africa smart agriculture and water management / Mwongera Caroline, Christine Lamanna, Hannah N. Kamau, Evan Girvetz, Wiebke Foerch -- Crop improvement for agricultural transformation in southern Africa / Hussein Shimelis, E.T. Gwata and Mark D. Laing -- Integrated Pest Management in Southern Africa: Approaches and Enabling Policy Issues / Mark Laing and Hussein Shimelis -- Options for improving stored product protection in Southern Africa / Cornel Adler and Edson Ncube -- Technology as a transformative tool in livestock production / Annelin Molotsi, Tinyiko Edward Halimani, Phetogo Monau and Kennedy Dzama -- Technologies for Agricultural Transformation: Animal Health / Delia Grace -- Harnessing ecosystem services in transforming agriculture in Southern Africa / Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Florence Mtambanengwe, Paul Mapfumo, Gisè…
  note: edited by Richard A. Sikora, Eugene R. Terry, Paul L.G. Vlek and Joyce Chitja.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Richard A. Sikora is Emeritus Professor of the University of Bonn, Germany; former chairman of the Department of Plant Pathology and the Section, Soil Ecosystem Phytopathology and Nematology. He was Chair of the CGIAR System-wide programme on integrated pest management and is presently a Fellow of Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (STIAS) and Convener of the Forum on Sustainable intensification. Richard has received numerous awards including the University of Illinois Alumni Association Award of Merit, theInternational Association for the Plant Protection Sciences Award of Distinction, theAmerican Phytopathological Society International Service Award and the 2017 German Phytopathological Society Anton de Bari medal for excellence in phytopathology. Eugene R. Terry was Director General of WARDA, now AfricaRice, and the Founding Director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). He currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Panel for Biosciences for East and Central Africa (BecA) - ILRI Hub, and the Chair of the Advisory Board of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) hosted by the University of Ghana in Accra. Dr Terry was awarded the AfricaRice Distinguished Service Award in 2010, for exemplary leadership in rice research and development in Africa, and The Macdonald College, McGill University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012, for outstanding contributions to society and humanity. Paul L.G. Vlek is Emeritus Professor of the University of Bonn, Germany, and former Director of the Centre for Development Research ZEF as well as the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use WASCAL. He devoted many years of service to a number of journal editorial boards and national and international scientific committees. In 2014, he was awarded the World Agriculture Prize for his lifetime contribution to agricultural development. Joyce Chitja is Senior Lecturer in Food Security at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,…
  subject:
    geographic code: fs-----
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural innovations
    geographic: Africa, Southern
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable agriculture
    geographic: Africa, Southern
  subject:
    topic: Food security
    geographic: Africa, Southern
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Innovations
    geographic: Afrique australe
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture durable
    geographic: Afrique australe
  subject:
    topic: Sécurité alimentaire
    geographic: Afrique australe
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural innovations
  subject:
    topic: Food security
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable agriculture
  subject:
    geographic: Southern Africa
  subject:
    topic: agricultural development
  subject:
    topic: African studies
  subject:
    topic: agriculture and food
  classification: S494.5.I5 T743 2020
  classification: 630.968
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    origin info:
      publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019039355
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    record creation date: 190903
    record change date: 20240130225639.8
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    language of cataloging:
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