Natural resources management in African agriculture : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud.
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 335 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.