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Infrastructure And Technology Constraints To Agricultural Development In The Humid And Subhumid Tropics Of Africa
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Book Synopsis Infrastructure and Technology Constraints to Agricultural Development in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Africa by : Dunstan S. C. Spencer
Download or read book Infrastructure and Technology Constraints to Agricultural Development in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Africa written by Dunstan S. C. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Ecoregional Program for the Humid and SubHumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Workshop Publisher :IITA ISBN 13 :9781311851 Total Pages :217 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (813 download)
Book Synopsis Strategies for Farming Systems Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Ecoregional Program for the Humid and SubHumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Workshop
Download or read book Strategies for Farming Systems Development in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Ecoregional Program for the Humid and SubHumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Workshop and published by IITA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Improving life in the humid African tropics by :
Download or read book Improving life in the humid African tropics written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Technological Potentials for Food Production in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Africa by :
Download or read book Technological Potentials for Food Production in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference paper on agricultural technology aspects of food production in rain-fed tropical zones of Africa - describes the environment and farming systems, as well as the major obstacles to agricultural production; discusses the trends in technological changes related to land reclamation, crop diversification, agroforestry, pest control, agricultural mechanization, integration of livestock in farming systems, etc.; includes recommendations. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics by : National Research Council
Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources will be seriously depleted within the next 50 years. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics provides critically needed direction for developing strategies that both mitigate land degradation, deforestation, and biological resource losses and help the economic status of tropical countries through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base. Recommendations for developing technologies needed for sustainable agriculture. A strategy for changing policies that discourage conserving and managing natural resources and biodiversity. Detailed reports on agriculture and deforestation in seven tropical countries.
Book Synopsis Institutional Constraints to Small Farmer Development in Southern Africa by : Ajuruchukwu Obi
Download or read book Institutional Constraints to Small Farmer Development in Southern Africa written by Ajuruchukwu Obi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Africa region has experienced more than its fair share of problems in recent years. Just when it seemed that the hardships wrought by the devastating cycle of droughts and floods of 2000 to 2002 were a thing of the past, other problems emerged. At one level, there have been the weak and often erratic governance mechanisms and political crises in some countries of the region, leading to severe disruptions in agricultural production to the point that supplies and markets have virtually disappeared. At another level, socio-cultural rigidities have often militated against the adoption of efficient farming practices, resulting in sub-optimal choices that lock smallholders into a low equilibrium trap. In the face of the disappearing supplies and missing markets, these have engendered hyper-inflationary trends of a magnitude unknown anywhere else in the world. But in the midst of all this apparent dreariness, cases are emerging from which immense lessons can be drawn. This book assembles a collection of research papers based on studies completed in 2008 and 2009 in Southern Africa that examine various dimensions of the institutional constraints small farmers are facing in the region and how they are going about dealing with them. The papers draw from these diverse and polar experiences and present some theoretical and practical insights that should form the basis for more in-depth, country-level, sector-specific analyses, focusing mainly on citrus, horticultures, cotton and livestock. The thematic issues of income inequality, land reform, natural resource management and value chain governance and chain choice, are covered in this book and are expected to be of interest for a wide constituency, including researchers, development practitioners, rural animators, and policy makers.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Infrastructure for Development by : François Bourguignon
Download or read book Rethinking Infrastructure for Development written by François Bourguignon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides profiles of over 50 countries with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology, infrastructure, trade and finance, all in one handy, pocketsized volume. A must have for anyone interested in today's development challenges in subSaharan Africa.
Book Synopsis Conservation Farming in Zambia by : Steven Haggblade and Gelson Tembo
Download or read book Conservation Farming in Zambia written by Steven Haggblade and Gelson Tembo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Latha Nagarajan, Philip G. Pardey, and Melinda Smale Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Local Seed Systems for Millet Crops in Marginal Environments of India: Industry and Policy Perspectives by : Latha Nagarajan, Philip G. Pardey, and Melinda Smale
Download or read book Local Seed Systems for Millet Crops in Marginal Environments of India: Industry and Policy Perspectives written by Latha Nagarajan, Philip G. Pardey, and Melinda Smale and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Samuel Benin, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Melinda Smale, John Pender, and Simeon Ehui Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :80 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Households Farm of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands by : Samuel Benin, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Melinda Smale, John Pender, and Simeon Ehui
Download or read book Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Households Farm of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands written by Samuel Benin, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Melinda Smale, John Pender, and Simeon Ehui and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Farm Conservation of Rice Biodiversity in Nepal: A Simultaneous Estimation Approach. by : D. Gauchan, M. E. Van Dusen, and M. Smale
Download or read book On Farm Conservation of Rice Biodiversity in Nepal: A Simultaneous Estimation Approach. written by D. Gauchan, M. E. Van Dusen, and M. Smale and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local Seed Systems and Village-Level Determinants of Millet Crop Diversity in Marginal Environments of India by : Latha Nagarajan and Melinda Smale
Download or read book Local Seed Systems and Village-Level Determinants of Millet Crop Diversity in Marginal Environments of India written by Latha Nagarajan and Melinda Smale and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Crop Production Using a Cross-Entropy Method by : Liangzhi You and Stanley Wood
Download or read book Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Crop Production Using a Cross-Entropy Method written by Liangzhi You and Stanley Wood and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While agricultural production statistics are reported on a geopolitical - often national - basis we often need to know the status of production or productivity within specific sub-regions, watersheds, or agro-ecological zones. Such re-aggregations are typically made using expert judgments or simple area-weighting rules. We describe a new, entropy-based approach to making spatially disaggregated assessments of the distribution of crop production. Using this approach tabular crop production statistics are blended judiciously with an array of other secondary data to assess the production of specific crops within individual "pixels" - typically 25 to 100 square kilometers in size. The information utilized includes crop production statistics, farming system characteristics, satellite-derived land cover data, biophysical crop suitability assessments, and population density. An application is presented in which Brazilian state level production statistics are used to generate pixel level crop production data for eight crops. To validate the spatial allocation we aggregated the pixel estimates to obtain synthetic estimates of municipio level production in Brazil, and compared those estimates with actual municipio statistics. The approach produced extremely promising results. We then examined the robustness of these results compared to short-cut approaches to spatializing crop production statistics and showed that, while computationally intensive, the cross-entropy method does provide more reliable estimates of crop production patterns.
Author :Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale, and Paul Glewwe Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Comparing Farm and Village-Level Determinants of Millet Diversity in Marginal Environments of India: The Context of Seed Systems by : Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale, and Paul Glewwe
Download or read book Comparing Farm and Village-Level Determinants of Millet Diversity in Marginal Environments of India: The Context of Seed Systems written by Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale, and Paul Glewwe and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Nicholas A. Linacre, Mark A. Burgman, Peter K. Ades, and Allen Stewart-Oaten Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :37 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Incorporating Collateral Information Using an Adaptive Management Framework for the Regulation of Transgenic Crops by : Nicholas A. Linacre, Mark A. Burgman, Peter K. Ades, and Allen Stewart-Oaten
Download or read book Incorporating Collateral Information Using an Adaptive Management Framework for the Regulation of Transgenic Crops written by Nicholas A. Linacre, Mark A. Burgman, Peter K. Ades, and Allen Stewart-Oaten and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Hedonic Approach to Estimating the Supply of Variety Attributes of a Subsistence Crop by : Svetlana Edmeades
Download or read book A Hedonic Approach to Estimating the Supply of Variety Attributes of a Subsistence Crop written by Svetlana Edmeades and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Reach the Poor by : Atanassov, Atanas
Download or read book To Reach the Poor written by Atanassov, Atanas 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: Local farming communities throughout the world face productivity constraints, environmental concerns, and diverse nutritional needs. Developing countries address these challenges in a number of ways. One way is public research that produces genetically modified (GM) crops and recognize biotechnology as a part of the solution. To reach these communities, GM crops, after receiving biosafety agreement, must be approved for evaluation under local conditions. However, gaps between approvals in the developed and developing world grow larger, as the process of advancing GM crops in developing countries becomes increasingly difficult. In several countries, only insect resistant cotton has successfully moved from small, confined experimental trials to larger, open trials and to farms. By far, most GM crop approvals have been for commercial products that perform well under tropical conditions. However, complete information on public GMcrop research in developing countries has not been assessed. Will policies and research institutions in the developing world stimulate the safe use of publicly fundedGM food crops? The relatively few GM crops approved from public research, coupled with growing regulatory, biosafety capacity, trade, and political concerns, argue to the contrary. To tackle this issue, we identified and analyzed public research pipelines for GM crops among 16 developing countries and transition economies. Respondents reported 209 genetic transformation events for 46 different crops at the time when the survey was conducted. The pipelines demonstrate scientific progress among publicly funded crop research institutes in participating countries. Information and findings are presented for GM crops nearing final stages of selection. Additional details are provided for the types of genes and traits used, the breadth of genetic resources documented, implications for regulation, and the type of research partnerships employed. Regulations, GM crop approvals, choice of transgene, and policy implications are discussed as they affect this research. Based on these findings, recommendations are presented that would help sustain and increase efficiency of publicly supported research while meeting biosafety requirements. To do so, the study examines results concerning investments and choices made in research, capacity, and policy development for biotechnology. These indicate the risk and potential for GM technologies in developing countries. Policy makers, those funding biotechnology, and other stakeholders can use this information to prioritize investments, consider product advancement, and assess relative magnitude of potential risks, and benefits.
