Natural resources management in African agriculture : understanding and improving current practices / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan)

Place, Frank (Impact assessment advisor)

Aboud, Abdillahi A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural resources--Africa--Management.

Agricultural resources.

Management.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, UK ; New York : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, [2002]

Contents:

1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture / C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud, D.R. Brown 1

Part I Farmers' Objectives and Learning Processes

2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management / J. Pretty, L. Buck 23

3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity / P.E. Peters 35

4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria / A.A. Adesina, J. Chianu 51

5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa / G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan, S.A. Tarawali 65

Part II Willingness and Capacity to Make Long-Term Investments

6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia / B. Gebremedhin, S.M. Swinton 77

7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity / S.T. Holden, B. Shiferaw 91

8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants / D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi, T. Reardon 103

9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa / C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri, R. Uttaro 115

Part III Economic Incentives and the Importance of the Resource Base

10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger / T J Wyatt 129

11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya / H.A. Freeman, R. Coe 143

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, B. Jama 155

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 / P. Kristjanson, I. Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong, B.B. Singh 169

14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar / M.S. Freudenberger, K.S. Freudenberger 181

Part IV The Agroecological, Institutional and Policy Context

15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali / V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba, D. Weight 193

16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices / N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo, F.B.R. Rwehumbiza 205

17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa / M. Mekuria, S.R. Waddington 219

18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia / B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman, N. Russell 235

19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems / L.R. Ndlovu, P.H. Mugabe 251

20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa / B.I. Shapiro, J.H. Sanders 261

Part V Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture

21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research / F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila, C.B. Barrett 275

22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture / C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon, A.A. Aboud 287.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0851995845

OCLC:

47995966