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Natural resources management in African agriculture understanding and improving current practices /

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Corporate Authors: International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ebrary, Inc
其他作者: Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan), Place, Frank, Dr, Aboud, Abdillahi A.
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002.
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Agricultural resources > Africa > Management.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture 1
  • C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown
  • PART I: FARMERS' OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING PROCESSES
  • 2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management 23
  • J. Pretty and L. Buck
  • 3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity 35
  • P.E. Peters
  • 4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria 51
  • A.A. Adesina andJ. Chianu
  • 5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa 65
  • G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali
  • PART II: WILLINGNESS AND CAPACITY TO MAKE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
  • 6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia 77
  • B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton
  • 7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity 91
  • S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw
  • 8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants 103
  • D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon
  • 9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa 115
  • C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro
  • PART III: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESOURCE BASE
  • 10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129
  • TI Wyatt
  • 11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya 143
  • H.A. Freeman and R. Coe
  • 12. Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia 155
  • F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and
  • B. Jama
  • 13. Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa 169
  • P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and
  • B.B. Singh
  • 14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar 181
  • M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger
  • PART IV: THE AGROECOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT
  • 15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali 193
  • V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight
  • 16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices 205
  • N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza
  • 17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa 219
  • M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington
  • 18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia 235
  • B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell
  • 19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems 251
  • L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe
  • 20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa 261
  • B.I. Shapiro andJ.H. Sanders
  • PART V: TOWARDS IMPROVED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
  • 21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research 275
  • F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett
  • 22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 287
  • C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud.

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