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Author : CIEPCA.
Publisher : IITA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cover crops
ISBN : 9781311797
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cover crops
ISBN : 9780889368521
Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Author : Williams, Timothy O.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural resources
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112654830
Author : Daniel Buckles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cover crops
ISBN : OCLC:846870991
Author : George Ouma,Franz-Theo Gottwald,Isabel Boergen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa south of Sahara
ISBN : 3631585241
The livelihood of the world's population depends mostly on natural resources: land, forest, water and the air we breath. The continual degradation and diminution of these resources due to the cultivation of land threatens the economic and social security of individuals, communities and countries as well as the intricate web of ecological, social, economic and cultural relations that bind the global community together. To be productive, our resources must be managed properly, enriched and harvested responsibly.
Author : Marjatta Eilittä,Joseph Mureithi,Rolf Derpsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402020513
In the 1980s and 1990s, green manure/cover crop (GMCC) systems became a popular agricultural technology in research and development efforts for smallholder tropical and subtropical farmers. However, few syntheses of these experiences have been conducted. This volume of case studies contributes to bridging this gap by reviewing field-level experiences with these systems. Twelve case studies are included. Eleven of them describe experiences from Latin America (4 cases), Africa (6 cases) and Asia (1 case) and the twelfth case reports on the development of a GMCC systems database. Two concluding chapters, `Learning from the Case Studies' and `Future Perspectives', build upon the cases. The systems described are diverse. Some systems have been spontaneously adopted by farmers, while others have been introduced to the farmers through diffusion efforts. Some of the cases reviewed describe small, localized efforts while others report on large-scale, well-known ones, such as the combination of GMCCs and conservation tillage in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the maize-Mucuna system in northern Honduras, and the improved fallow systems in Eastern Zambia. Most experiences include both development and research aspects and to the extent possible the cases integrate these two. Discussion of the strengths and shortcomings of the systems and efforts is frank, and the goal is to learn from these experiences to benefit future efforts. It is expected that both researchers and development practitioners and students of tropical farming systems and soil management will find this volume of case studies useful.
Author : Henk Mutsaers,Danny Coyne,Stefan Hauser,Jeroen Huising,Alpha Kamara,Generose Nziguheba,Pieter Pypers,Godfrey Taulya,Piet van Asten,Bernard Vanlauwe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315518848
Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and assesses the position of research within the research-to-development continuum, including how innovations have been validated with the intended beneficiaries. Using the experience of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as a case study, the authors analyse how processes, partnerships and other factors have affected research priorities, the delivery of outputs, and their uptake by farming communities in SSA. They evaluate both successes and failures of past investments in soil fertility research and important lessons learnt which provide crucial information for national and international scientists currently engaged in this research area. The book is organised in a number of chapters each covering a chronological period characterised by its primary research content and approaches and by the dominant research paradigms and delivery models.
Author : Williams, Timothy O. ,Tarawali, Shirley A. ,Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.,Fernández Rivera, S.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 929146161X
Author : Andre Bationo,Boaz Waswa,Job Kihara,Joseph Kimetu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402057601
Food insecurity is a fundamental challenge to human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production leads to low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risk and threat and lack of empowerment. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of agricultural research and development experiences from sub-Saharan Africa. The text highlights practical lessons from the sub-Saharan Africa region.
Author : Jürgen Runge,Assogba Guézéré,Laldja Kankpénandja
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000217834
This book presents the outcome of an interdisciplinary and international workshop supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung (funding line ‘Knowledge for Tomorrow’) on the topic of ‘Natural Resources, Socio-Ecological Sensitivity and Climate Change in the Volta-Oti Basin, West Africa’. The conference was jointly organised by Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Kara (Togo) held from March 6 to 8, 2019 in northern Togo. It aimed to strengthen capacities of junior scientists from the sub-region, exchange and mobilise theoretical and methodological background from various scientific fields (Botany, Construction, Geology, Geography, Infrastructure, Politics, Remote Sensing, Sociology and Urban Planning). One goal was to deliver reliable elements for ongoing and profound environmental analyses that lie outside the common questions of the academic and civil society stakeholders. Ecosystem fragmentation and deforestation in West Africa are mainly triggered by humans such as agriculture and small-scale forest disturbances for charcoal and firewood production. Increasing population pressure, declining of carrying capacity and demand for agricultural land caused the reduction of land conservation capacities, even in protected areas. The complexity of interactions between environmental and socio-ecological systems and subsequent effects (sensitivity) has raised ongoing international awareness in light of ongoing climate change. By the example of natural resources, land use and stakeholders’ perceptions within the Volta-Oti Basin the book’s proceedings present, discuss and distribute new findings that will sustainably stimulate the international debate. The workshop also intended to overcome national borders and language barriers between the Anglophone (Ghana) and the Francophone (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo) research communities, and supported better West African cooperation and networking. The young as well as the established partners formed new collaborations, and the event at the University of Kara (Togo) was a truly unique opportunity for all involved, not only to discuss science, but also to assess applied and best future management practices for the Oti-Volta Basin in West Africa.
Author : Abdulai Jalloh,Gerald C. Nelson,Timothy S. Thomas,Robert Bellarmin Zougmoré,Harold Roy-Macauley
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896292048
The first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.
Author : Tor Arve Benjaminsen,Christian Lund
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064761
Through a number of case studies from the West African Sahel, this book links and explores natural resources management from the perspectives of politics, property and production.
Author : Dilys Roe,Fred Nelson,Chris Sandbrook
Publisher : IIED
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9781843697558
Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. This title discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives.
Author : Quentin Gausset,Michael Anthony Whyte,Torben Birch-Thomsen
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171065407
In this volume, ten anthropologists and geographers critically address traditional Mathusian discourses in essays that attempt to move 'beyond territory and scarcity'.