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

著者

    • Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan)
    • Place, Frank, Dr
    • Aboud, Abdillahi A.

書誌事項

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

edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud

CABI Pub., c2002

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-329) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book consists of selected, edited and revised papers from a workshop held at ICRAF (International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) in July 2000.

目次

  • 1: The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture, C B Barrett and D R Brown, Cornell University, USA, F Place, and A A Aboud Part I: Farmers' Objectives and Learning Processes 2: Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management, J Pretty, University of Essex, UK and L Buck, Cornell University, USA 3: The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity, P E Peters, Harvard University, USA 4: Determinants of Farmers' Adoption and Adoption of Alley Farming Agroforestry Technology in Nigeria, A A Adesina, The Rockefeller Foundation, Zimbabwe and J Chianu, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria 5: Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green Manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa, G Tarawali, B Douthwaite and N C de Haan, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and S A Tarawali, International Livestock Research Institute Part II: Willingness and Capacity to Make Long TermInvestments 6: Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia, B Gebremedhin, International Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia and S M Swinton, Michigan State University, USA 7: Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity, S T Holden and B Shiferaw, Agricultural University of Norway 8: Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants, D C Clay, V Kelly, T Reardon, Michigan State University, USA, and E Mpyisi, Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture 9: Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa, C H Gladwin, University of Florida, USA, J S Peterson, D Phiri, World Vision, Zambia and R Uttaro Part III: Economic Incentives and the Importance of the Resource Base 10: Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger, T J Wyatt, International Crops Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Niger 11: Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient Management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya, H A Freeman and R Coe 12: Agroforestry for Soil Fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia, F Place, S Franzel, J DeWolf, R Rommelse, F Kwesiga, A Niang and B Jama, ICRAF, Kenya 13: Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-livestock-soil Management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: The Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannas of West Africa, 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, 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, V Kelly, M Lamine Sylla, M Galiba and D Weight 16: Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers
  • Practices, N Hatibu, E A Lazaro, H F Mahoo and F B R Rwehumbiza, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania 17: Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil Fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa, M Mekuria and S R Waddington, CIMMYT-Zimbabwe 18: A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-livestock Farming Systems: The Case of Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia, 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, L Ndlovu, University of The North, South Africa and P H Mugabe, University of Zimbabwe 20: Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, B I Shapiro, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Mali and J H Sanders, Purdue University, USA Part V: Toward Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 21: Technology Development and Dissemination for Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture, F Place, B Swallow, J Wangila, A A Aboud and C B Barrett 22: Agricultural and Economic Policy for Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture C B Barrett, A A Aboud, F Place, J Lynam, The Rockefeller Foundation, Kenya and T Reardon, Michigan State University, USA

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