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Author : Benjamin Amadalo
Publisher : World Agroforestry Centre
ISBN 13 : 929059148X
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Improved Fallows for Western Kenya written by Benjamin Amadalo and published by World Agroforestry Centre. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin, and Bashir Jama
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Improved Fallows in Kenya: History, Farmer Practice, and Impacts written by Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin, and Bashir Jama and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Rommelse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic Assessment of Biomass Transfer and Improved Fallow Trials in Western Kenya written by Ralph Rommelse and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Rommelse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impact of Improved Fallows and Biomass Transfer on Household Poverty Indicators in Western Kenya written by Ralph Rommelse and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Place, Frank
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291448
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Agroforestry-based Soil Fertility Replenishment Practices on the Poor in Western Kenya written by Place, Frank and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that food production benefits from agricultural research, but whether that research benefits the poor is less certain. In 2000, the World Agroforestry Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute began examining the impact of soil fertility replenishment technologies on the poor in western Kenya. This report is one of seven case studies that comprise a broader IFPRI-managed study designed to determine how agricultural research is benefiting poor people. The goal of this broader study is to identify the conditions under which agricultural research reduces poverty and to improve the targeting of research to the changing needs of the poor. The study develops methods for evaluating the impact of agricultural research on poverty in the context of different agricultural technologies and within different country, social, and institutional settings. It also establishes a foundation that allows agricultural research centers to assess the impact of their work, identify research priorities, and guide technological design to increase future impact on poverty.
Author : Frank Place
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Agroforestry-based Soil Fertility Replenishment Practices on the Poor in Western Kenya written by Frank Place and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study explores the relationships between agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment (SFR) systems (improved fallows and biomass transfer) and poverty reduction in rural western Kenya. It further examines the role that different dissemination approaches play in conditioning which segments of society gain access to information to the technologies and then uses them. The study made use of many different qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and samples from both pilot areas where researchers maintained a significant presence and nonpilot areas where farmers learned of the technologies through other channels. Adoption processes were analyzed quantitatively using almost 2,000 households while changes in impact indicators were measured for just over 100 households. Qualitative methods included case studies for 40 households, where researchers lived in the villages for six months, and focus group discussions involving 16 different groups. The findings showed that poverty is rampant among households and appeared to worsen during the study period. The poor were reached by many different information providers and liked certain aspects of almost all types of organizations, from government extension to community group-based methods. Access to information is mediated by social relationships of wealth, gender and status; nevertheless, poor farmers acquired a significant amount of knowledge about soil fertility management. Adoption rates are not outstanding but they are encouraging, with about 20% of all farmers using the technologies on a regular basis, and a sizable percentage of farmers newly testing. Unlike some agricultural technologies historically, SFR was found not to be biased toward people controlling and managing resources above a certain threshold. The study also found that the poor were using the agroforestry technologies to a much greater extent than they were fertilizer (about 33% of farmers not using any other soil fertility practice were trying the new systems). The technologies were almost always at least doubling yields of maize. Despite these promising signs, the systems were not found to be linked to improved household-level food security or poverty indicators, primarily because the size of the fields under the agroforestry systems was, on average, quite small.
Author : Anja Gadgård Boye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Soil and Water Conservation in Agroforestry Systems written by Anja Gadgård Boye and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Improved Fallows in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Baltissen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Facilitating Learning Processes in Agricultural Extension written by Gerald Baltissen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria C. Morera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Extensification in the Western Highlands of Kenya written by Maria C. Morera and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study found that larger landholders in western Kenya, rather than increase the productivity of staple crops, substitute cash crop production for maize and bean production while land-poor farmers, rather than intensify food production, apply their labor towards agricultural wage work or nonfarm work. Thus larger landholders do not invest their wealth in inorganic soil fertility enhancements, such as mineral fertilizers, while smallholders do not invest their labor in organic soil fertility enhancements, such as green fertilizers or improved fallows. On average, farmers substitute land for fertilizer. Meanwhile, soil fertility enhancement and aggregate agricultural productivity remain low in this region, calling into question the efficacy of resource conservation and agricultural development efforts and pointing to a need for alternate food policies if economic structural transformation--the transformation of an agrarian economy to a diversified economy--is to take place in Kenya.
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Publisher : World Agroforestry Centre
ISBN 13 : 9290591943
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Improved Land Management in the Lake Victoria Basin written by and published by World Agroforestry Centre. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Charles Franzel
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851998848
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Trees on the Farm written by Steven Charles Franzel and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002-03-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most published books on agroforestry have focused on biophysical aspects. There has been a lack of scientifically rigorous information about the socioeconomic features of agroforestry, and the adoption of agroforestry practices by farmers.This book fills that gap by assessing the adoption of selected agroforestry practices developed with African farmers, describing methods, and drawing out the implications for research, development, and policy. The volume includes five case studies of research conducted in Kenya and Zambia to evaluate the adoption potential of agroforestry. The cases illustrate methods of farm and village technology design, testing, and analysis that are applicable to a wide range of natural resource management practices.Along with the case studies, the contents also include chapters on: methods for assessing agroforestry adoption potential, promoting new agroforestry technologies: policy lessons from on-farm research, and assessing adoption potential: lessons learned and future directions.
Author : Haggblade, Steven
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0801895030
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Successes in African Agriculture written by Haggblade, Steven and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SubSaharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. Because most Africans work in agriculture, escaping such dire poverty depends on increased agricultural productivity to raise rural incomes, lower food prices, and stimulate growth in other economic sectors. Per capita agricultural production in subSaharan Africa has fallen, however, for much of the past halfcentury. Successes in African Agriculture investigates how to reverse this decline. Instead of cataloging failures, as many past studies have done, this book identifies episodes of successful agricultural growth in Africa and identifies processes, practices, and policies for accelerated growth in the future. The individual studies follow developments in, among other areas, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa, horticulture in Kenya, and dairying in East Africa. Drawing on these case studies and on consultations with agricultural specialists and politicians from across subSaharan Africa -- undertaken in collaboration with the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development -- the contributors identify two key determinants of positive agricultural performance: agricultural research to provide more productive and sustainable technologies to farmers and a policy framework that fosters market incentives for increasing production. The contributors discuss how the public and private sectors can best coordinate the convergence of both factors. Given current concerns about global food security, this book provides timely and important resources to policymakers and development specialists concerned with reversing the negative trends in food insecurity and poverty in Africa.
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Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851998855
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Integrated Plant Nutrient Management in Sub-Saharan Africa written by and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil degradation and nutrient depletion have become serious threats to agricultural productivity in Africa. Soils cannot supply the quantities of nutrients required and yield levels decline rapidly once cropping commences. This book addresses these issues and includes papers from an international symposium held at Cotonou, Benin, October 9-12, 2000, organized by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria and the Department of Land Management of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In five main parts it marks the end of a first phase of collaborative research on "Balanced Nutrient Management Systems for the Moist Savanna and Humid Forest Zones of Africa" and concludes with recommendations, providing essential reading for crop and soil scientists.
Author : Bernard Vanlauwe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319076620
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa written by Bernard Vanlauwe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humid highlands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are characterized by high population densities and require intensification. The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA) has set up a research for development platform in various mandate areas in DR Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda, aiming to identify improved production, market, and nutrition options and facilitating the access for development partners to these options. This platform is supported by capacity building, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and monitoring and evaluation efforts. The conference, facilitated by CIALCA, aimed to (i) take stock of the state-of the art in agricultural intensification in the highlands of SSA and (ii) chart the way forward for agricultural research for development in the humid highlands of SSA, and more specifically in the recently launched Humidtropics Consortium Research Programme, through keynote, oral and poster presentations, and strategic panel discussions.
Author : Jagdish Chander Dagar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811541361
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes written by Jagdish Chander Dagar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents various aspects of agroforestry research and development, as well as the latest trends in degraded landscape management. Over the last four decades, agroforestry research (particularly on degraded landscapes) has evolved into an essential problem-solving science, e.g. in terms of sustaining agricultural productivity, improving soil health and biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting carbon sequestration and mitigating climate change. This book examines temperate and tropical agroforestry systems around the world, focusing on traditional and modern practices and technologies used to rehabilitate degraded lands. It covers the latest research advances, trends and challenges in the utilization and reclamation of degraded lands, e.g. urban and peri-urban agroforestry, reclamation of degraded landscapes, tree-based multi-enterprise agriculture, domestication of high-value halophytes, afforestation of coastal areas, preserving mangroves and much more. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for a broad range of stakeholders including farmers, scientists, researchers, educators, students, development/extension agents, environmentalists, policy/decision makers, and government and non-government organizations.
Author : G.H. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351737147
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Tomorrow's Agriculture written by G.H. Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: This volume represents some of the proceedings of the 24th conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2000. The papers in this volume include the president's address, the Elmhirst Lecture and a selection of 20 contributed papers. It also includes panel discussion reports, reports on the discussion groups and mini-symposia, poster paper abstracts, and the synoptic view presented at the close of the conference by the new president of the IAAE, Joachin von Braun. The theme of the 24th conference was "Tomorrow's Agriculture: Incentives, Institutions, Infrastructure and Innovations", reflecting the rapid advances being made in the application of biotechnology in both the developed and developing worlds.
