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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037847865
Author : Maja Slingerland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087253302
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Author : Williams, Timothy O.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : I. Okike
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Agricultural intensification
ISBN : 9291460966
Author : Paul Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000865165
Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing on his experience of West Africa, the author demonstrates that many of the most successful innovations in food-crop production during the 20th century have indigenous roots and that there should therefore be less emphasis on ‘teaching’ farmers how to farm and more emphasis on how to foster and support local adaptation and inventiveness. This book will be of interest to students of agriculture, environmental studies and rural development as well as those working with relief and development agencies.
Author : A. H. Kassam
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN : IND:30000111263012
This is a story about how FAO assisted groups of farmers in five farming communities in the moist savanna zone of South Western Burkina Faso to enhance their crop-livestock systems through Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices, including crop diversification, using an innovative farmer discovery process, to bring about agricultural intensification and improvement in livelihoods. FAO worked with a range of stakeholders including the farmers and their communities to create convergence and enable a farmer-based discovery process to experiment with a set of fundamentally new principles and elements in their farming practices for integrated crop-livestock production intensification. The positive outcomes offer a real promise and an opportunity for bringing about a large scale impact on agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the moist savanna zone West Africa. This publication describes the multi-stakeholder process which led the successful outcomes, and the opportunity for a greater change that now exists and should be harnessed for sustainable agriculture development, nationally and regionally.
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 : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 929146161X
Author : Descheemaeker, Katrien,Amede, Tilahun,Haileslassie, A.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Livestock
ISBN : 9789290907022
Focusing on mixed crop-livestock farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa, this review brings together the available knowledge in the various components of the livestock and water sectors. Through an analysis of livestock-water interactions, promising strategies and interventions to improve Livestock Water Productivity are proposed. In the biophysical domain, the numerous interventions relate to feed, water and animal management. These are interlinked with interventions in the socio-political-economic domain. The paper identifies critical research and development gaps in terms of methodologies for quantifying water productivity and integrating different scales, and also in terms of institutions and policies.
Author : Gilles Lemaire,Paulo Cesar de Faccio Carvalho,Scott Kronberg,Sylvie Recous
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128110515
Agro-Ecosystem Diversity: Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality presents cutting-edge exploration of developing novel farming systems and introduces landscape ecology to agronomy. It encompasses the broad range of links between agricultural development and ecological impact and how to limit the potential negative results. Presented in seven sections, each focusing on a specific challenge to sustaining diversity, the book provides insights toward the argument that by re-introducing diversity, it should be possible to maintain a high level of productivity of agro-ecosystems while also maintaining and/or restoring a satisfactory level of environment quality and biodiversity. Demonstrates that diversified agro-ecosystems can be intensified with environmental quality preserved, restored and enhanced Includes analysis of economic constraints leading to specialization of farms and regions and the social locking forces resisting to diversification of agro-ecosystems Presents a global vision of world agriculture and the tradeoff between a necessary increase in food production and restoring environment quality
Author : John McIntire,Daniel Bourzat,Prabhu L. Pingali
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008713682
This book is the result of a collaborative research effort between the World Bank and the International Livestock Centre for Africa. It extends previous work on agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in Africa by seeking to answer a number of basic questions about the integration of crops and livestock in sub - Saharan Africa. Those questions include the role of mixed farming in promoting agricultural growth, the appropriate points at which to encourage the use of animals as sources of farm power, the contribution of animals to improving the poor fertility of African soils, the efficacy of different methods to better livestock nutrition, and the economic returns to incorporating livestock production on small farms. While many individual studies have analyzed such issues in the past, this book is the first comprehensive review of existing knowledge which offers general explanations of crop-livestock relations with respect to both economic and technical features of African agriculture. In doing so, experimental evidence is carefully synthesized and examined in light of field visits to thirty-three different sites through the major agroclimates of sub - Saharan Africa. The detailed empirical nature of the book permits specific conclusions to be drawn for different farming systems, while its comparisons across those systems allow broad explanations of contrasting crop-livestock interactions.
Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IITA
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789785000436
Author : Lambert Muhr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3861862166
Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055852266
In the literature of sustainable development, many have argued for the encouragement of mixed farming (involving the integration of livestock and crops on one farm) to meet the needs of small-scale African farming systems. Scoones and Wolmer (both with the Environment Group at the Institute of Development Studies, U. of Sussex) argue that behind this argument is the implicit or explicit assumption that mixed farming represents a stage in a normative evolutionary process towards an ideal. They suggest that this view is mistaken and that mixed farming is only one of a range of possible pathways of change in agricultural systems. They present case studies from Ethiopia, Mali, and Zimbabwe and analyze how social actors have varying access to resources. This variance is often due to institutional arrangements that are too often ignored in discussions of mixed farming and therefore fail to take into account situations that could help development efforts to be more effectively targeted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Christopher L. Delgado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : PSU:000004598688