Sustainable agricultural intensification : a handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa / edited by Mateete Bekunda, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Jonathan Odhong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bekunda, Mateete, editor.

Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, editor.

Odhong, Jonathan, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable agriculture--Africa, Eastern.

Sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable agriculture--Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

xvii, 162 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA, USA : CABI, [2022]

Summary:

This book presents some of the improved agricultural technologies that were validated by the Africa RISING Project in East and Southern Africa (ESA), focusing on smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, and working in partnership with development (scaling) institutions. It consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 shows how gender concerns must be woven into all sustainable intensification (SI) interventions to produce equitable outcomes. It describes activities to enhance women's participation, measure the benefits, and transform gender relations. Chapter 2 describes the performance of new cereal and legume crop varieties introduced by Africa RISING into agroecosystems in which they had not been tested before. Chapter 3 presents technologies to diversify the common maize-dominated cropping systems and address human nutrition, improve soil organic matter, and maximize the benefits of applying fertilizer. Chapter 4 presents technologies for replacing the nutrients lost from cropped fields with external fertilizer sources in a manner that minimizes the consequences of too little or too much application. Chapter 5 is about soil conservation. Chapter 6 presents conservation agriculture, which can help smallholder farmers build better resilience to the consequences of climate change and variable weather. Improved technologies for drying, shelling, and hermetic storage of grain are presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 provides information to help farmers use outputs from crop production systems to formulate supplementary feed. Chapter 9 follows with technologies that allow well-planned nutrition-specific interventions (recipes) to utilize various livestock and crop products to enhance family nutrition, with specific attention paid to diets for children. Chapter 10 presents examples from the preceding chapters to illustrate the potential impacts of interconnected technologies. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents experiences and lessons learned from using these approaches to transfer and scale the technologies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Weaving gender into sustainable intensification interventions / Gundula Fischer

2. New high-yielding, stress-resilient, and nutritious crop varieties / andAmsal Tarekegne

3. Cereal-legume cropping systems for enhanced productivity, food security, and resilience / Sieglinde Snapp

4. Management of soil fertility through application of fertilizers / Wezi Mhango

5. Soil and water conservation for climate-resilient agriculture / Elirehema Swai

6. Land management through conservation agriculture and associated practices / Christian Thierfelder

7. Improved technologies for reducing post-harvest losses / Bekele Kotu

8. Improved feeding for dairy cattle and poultry in smallholder crop-livestock systems / David Mutetikka

9. Improved household nutrition through home-grown produce and consumption of nutritious and healthy products / Takuji W. Tsusaka

10. Combining multiple technologies: Integrated soil fertility management / Christian Thierfelder

11. Taking technologies to a greater scale / Christian Thierfelder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781800621602

1800621604

OCLC:

1282599157

Publisher Number:

99991192834