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Author : Janet Lowore
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789792446722
Author : Bruce Morgan Campbell
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 9789798764073
Miombo woodlands and their use: overview and key issues. The ecology of miombo woodlands. Population biology of miombo tree. Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences. Rural households and miombo woodlands: use, value and management. Trade in woodland products from the miombo region. Managing miombo woodland. Institutional arrangements governing the use and the management of miombo woodlands. Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods: options and opportunities.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251304235
This publication focuses on the links between food security, nutrition and wood energy in the Miombo woodlands, one of the most important forest ecosystems in southern Africa. Miombo woodland is a key dryland forest ecosystem stretching across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique,Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The woodlands are considered one of the most globally important biodiversity hotspots. They sustain the livelihoods of close to 100 million rural poor through the provision of wood energy, food and nutrition. Miombo woodlands are increasingly under threat from a growing population, expansion of agricultural land, overuse of forest resources and unsustainable management. With the impacts of climate change already contributing to rising food insecurity in many parts of the world and with growing biodiversity loss, bringing the Miombo countries together to share best practices towards addressing common challenges facing the woodlands is vital.
Author : Peter Dewees,Bruce Campbell,Yemi Katerere,Almeida Sitoe,Anthony B. Cunningham,Arild Angelsen,Sven Wunder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098551955X
This study explores policies, incentives and options for the rural poor who depend on the miombo woodlands of Southern Africa. Because of the important role of forests as social safety nets, planners must keep in mind the cost of deforestation and degradation to rural populations.
Author : Emmanuel N. Chidumayo,Davison J. Gumbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136531378
The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the continent's population. This unique book brings together scientific knowledge on this topic from East, West, and Southern Africa and describes the relationships between forests, woodlands, people and their livelihoods. Dry forest is defined as vegetation dominated by woody plants, primarily trees, the canopy of which covers more than 10 per cent of the ground surface, occurring in climates with a dry season of three months or more. This broad definition - wider than those used by many authors - incorporates vegetation types commonly termed woodland, shrubland, thicket, savanna, wooded grassland, as well as dry forest in its strict sense. The book provides a comparative analysis of management experiences from the different geographic regions, emphasizing the need to balance the utilization of dry forests and woodland products between current and future human needs. Further, the book explores the techniques and strategies that can be deployed to improve the management of African dry forests and woodlands for the benefit of all, but more importantly, the communities that live off these vegetation formations. Thus, the book lays a foundation for improving the management of dry forests and woodlands for the wide range of products and services they provide.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251304938
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) – FAW, a dangerous transboundary pest native to the Americas, has been spreading rapidly to all sub-regions of Africa since 2016, causing significant yield losses to crops. Farmer education and community action are critical elements in the strategy to best manage FAW populations, using an integrated and ecological pest management approach. Farmer Field School (FFS), a holistic farmer education approach used in over 90 countries, will be a key component of the response effort.This guide seeks to provide guidance on how to conduct FFS on the integrated and sustainable management of the FAW in Africa, with emphasis on maize as FAW’s preferred host plant. It provides information on the biology and ecology of FAW; field studies and exercises for use in season-long FFS; and suggestions on how to build a training programme for rural advisory services/extension on FAW and FFS refresher courses of Master Trainers and Facilitators.
Author : Natasha S. Ribeiro,Yemi Katerere,Paxie W. Chirwa,Isla M. Grundy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030501044
Based on work by the Miombo Network in southern Africa, this book helps decision-makers and general readers alike improve their understanding of the socio-ecology of the Miombo woodlands across southern Africa. It also highlights the importance of and the need for further research on the unique Miombo ecology and its link with economic development. One major challenge facing these woodlands is the influence that direct (both natural and anthropogenic) and indirect drivers of change, as well as interactions between these, have had over the centuries. As such the book explores the socio-economic and ecological interactions that occur in these woodlands and discusses the need for further research to provide a better understanding of these interactions. Drawing on data and information from numerous studies conducted in the last 20 years, the book presents a comparative analysis of policy changes and management experiences in the countries concerned. It also addresses issues of global climate change, since they have an impact on Miombo ecosystem management and restoration, and provides future projections based on an assessment of how climate change has affected the Miombo woodlands in the past.
Author : Françoise Malaisse
Publisher : Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Diet
ISBN : 2870161069
In the Miombo ecoregion (2,865,000 km² or 9.1% of Africa), the Zambezian open forest constitutes the main vegetation unit. It extends to no less than eight countries, from Burundi in the North to South Africa in the South, and from Angola in the West to Mozambique in the East. The austral part of Africa's open forests falls within the Zambezian Regional Center of Endemism outlined by White in 1983. This book focuses mainly on the wetter Zambezian Miombo woodlands. Also patches of mosaic Zambezian dry evergreen forests and small areas of grasslands on Kalahari sands are incorporated in the study. The aim of this book is to gather together the amazing local environment knowledge of Zambezian open forests peoples in order to permit an easier improvement of their well-being. This research has been developed in an ethnoecological way of thinking. Indeed, the synergy arising from putting together local knowledge and updated ecological research provides huge information on ecosystem management, including biodiversity aspects. Ethnoecology is an emergent field that focuses on local peoples' perception and management of complex and co-evolved relationships between the cultural, ecological, and economic components of anthropogenic and natural ecosystems. In the present book, the Zambezian wild edible products are treated according to fourteen items (from fungi, plants and honey, to beverages and salt, through mammals, birds, fish, insects and other animals). Some other comments concern agriculture and ethnoecology. All together more than a thousand edible products are involved; their ecology, their phenology, as well as their nutritional values are presented and discussed. The iconography is supported by a CD with 387 color photographs. The earlier French version of 1997 has been reviewed and enlarged, taking into account recent progress of knowledge. An important bibliography is presented.
Author : Alf Hornborg,Brett Clark,Kenneth Hermele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136335280
Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined. What makes this volume unique is that it sets this approach in a trans-disciplinary, global, and historical framework.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137066152
Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environmental change; and policies for conservation and development. The volume looks closely at the details of rural resource use, access and control, the social institutions which shape this, and the effects on African environments. It is not possible to understand livelihoods in Africa - a central issue for all social and economic questions - without grasping the interplay between environmental change and the sustainability of rural livelihoods. The volume is groundbreaking in its detailed examination of this interplay, and its importance in grasping the roots of poverty and potential for its alleviation, and for its unique combination of natural and social science methods.
Author : Sheona Shackleton,Charlie Shackleton,Patricia Shanley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642179839
This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest management, income generation and poverty alleviation. Based on a critical analysis of the debates and discourses it employs a systematic approach to present a balanced and realistic perspective on the benefits and challenges associated with NTFP use and management within local livelihoods and landscapes, supported with case examples from both the southern and northern hemispheres. This book covers the social, economic and ecological dimensions of NTFPs and closes with an examination of future prospects and research directions.
Author : Godwin S. Kowero,Bruce Morgan Campbell,Ussif Rashid Sumaila
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789793361222
Author : 高根務
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132431052
Presents the six villages where field work was conducted on the role of land and labour in forming the basis of the livelihoods of rural households. Considers the interrelationship among the indigenous land tenure systems, customary inheritance rules, increasing land scarcity, and people's strategies to obtain land rights. Discusses the types of agricultural labour, consisting of family workers and hired workers, and the significance of major crops grown, namely maize and tobacco. Depicts features of female-headed households.
Author : Steve Donda,Mafaniso Hara,Maxon Ngochera,Erling Berge
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643905055
Management of Lake Malawi (also called Lake Nyasa), one of the Great Lakes of Africa.
Author : Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000844627
Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues. The volume argues that the activation and the empowerment of local peoples are critical to addressing current environmental challenges and that this must be enhanced by linking and extending such stewardship to global and national policymakers and actors on a broader scale. This can be achieved by employing ACM’s participatory approach, characterized by conscious efforts among stakeholders to communicate, collaborate, negotiate and seek out opportunities to learn collectively about the impacts of their action. The case studies presented here reflect decades of experience working with forest communities in three Indonesian Islands and four African countries. Researchers and practitioners who participated in CIFOR’s early ACM work had the rare opportunity to return to their research sites decades later to see what has happened. These authors reflect critically on their own experience and local site conditions to glean insights that guide us in more effectively addressing climate change and other forest-related challenges. They showcase how global and regional actors will have to work more closely with smallholders, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, recognizing the key local roles in forest stewardship. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development, natural resource management and development studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
