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  title info:
    title: Food crop production by smallholder farmers in Southern Africa
    sub title: challenges and opportunities for improvement
  name:
    name part: Muimba-Kankolongo, Ambayeba
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement evaluates traditional cultivation practices used by smallholder farmers, providing a synthesis of the latest information on increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations. The book catalogs smallholder cultivation practices and recommends innovative strategies for improving the agriculture sector including: management practices that reduce net carbon emissions; technologies that improve soil structures and conserve the natural resources base; means of empowering female resources along value chains; and government commitment to adopt policies that enhance agriculture productivity by encouraging farmers to use environmentally sound cultivation technologies. Traditional farming techniques often produce negative impacts on the environment and ecosystem resulting in outbreaks of diseases and pests. In addition to the region's recurrent droughts, these outbreaks of numerous diseases and pests, weeds and other invasive plants put thousands at risk of poverty and hunger, as well as malnutrition. This book presents enhanced agricultural production technologies for ensuring adequate food production, safety and nutritional quality for the population of Southern Africa and forms the basis for an increased SADC regional effort in food production through which financial and trade institutions can improve stakeholder capacities, encourage micro-enterprise development and enhance employment and regional trade.
  table of contents: General introduction -- Climates and agro-ecologies -- Factors important to crops production -- Diseases and pests of food crops in SADC -- Smallholding farms and farmers in SADS -- Common cultivation practices -- Pre-and post-harvest field operations -- Cereal production -- Root and tuber crops -- Leguminous crops -- Vegetables production -- Fruits production -- Perspectives for improvement -- Conclusion.
  note: Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-347) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: fs-----
  subject:
    topic: Farms, Small
    geographic: Africa, Southern
  subject:
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: Africa, Southern
  subject:
    topic: Petites exploitations agricoles
    geographic: Afrique australe
  subject:
    topic: Aliments
    topic: Approvisionnement
    geographic: Afrique australe
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Industries
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Farms, Small
  subject:
    topic: Food supply
  subject:
    geographic: Southern Africa
  classification: HD1476.A456 M85 2018eb
  classification: 338.16
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    title info:
      title: Food crop production by smallholder farmers in Southern Africa
    name:
      name part: Muimba-Kankolongo, Ambayeba.
    origin info:
      publisher: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2018]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1002834494
  identifier: 9780128143841
  identifier: 0128143843
  identifier: 9780128143834
  identifier: 0128143835
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 180213
    record change date: 20260327153036.4
    record identifier: in00005763060
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng