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Author : John Cecil Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Soil and Water Management in West Africa written by John Cecil Day and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Reij
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134175930
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Sustaining the Soil written by Chris Reij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions. But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned, by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers' practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances. Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the book explores the various factors that influence adoption and adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa, involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which makes the most of both the new and the old.
Author : John Cecil Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Soil and Water Management in West Africa written by John Cecil Day and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Soil and Water Management in West Africa written by John C. Day and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Pimentel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521104715
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)
Download or read book World Soil Erosion and Conservation written by David Pimentel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land degradation from soil erosion has been considered by many to be a problem of significant proportion, affecting some 30-50% of the earth's land surface. At the time of the first publication of this book in 1993, estimates indicated that 10-15 million hectares of land were being lost each year through erosion and salinisation from irrigation and that at such a rate of loss, topsoil reserves on most sloping lands would be depleted within two hundred years. Since humankind's dependency on the land for food is almost total, soil erosion represents a real threat to the security of our food supply. The need for the immediate conservation of the world's soil resources is therefore clear. As part of the response to this need, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Commission on Ecology convened a special working group to consider the problem of world soil erosion and to propose practical solutions for soil conservation. This important book presents the outcome of their work.
Author : Chris Reij
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134175868
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Sustaining the Soil written by Chris Reij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions. But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned, by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers' practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances. Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the book explores the various factors that influence adoption and adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa, involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which makes the most of both the new and the old.
Author : Chrispin Kowenje
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031096630
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From Traditional to Modern African Water Management written by Chrispin Kowenje and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book preserves and scientifically interprets the African foreknowledge on water resources management. It offers insight into the relevance of the traditional knowledge and practices to modern approaches on sustainable water management. The African continent has partially preserved its natural habitat for centuries. In this book, this knowledge is combined with the current scientific understanding. The traditional practices are categorized as: i) water harvesting, ii) water transportation, iii) water storage and conservation, iv) water treatments, v) myths and folk stories about water management or conservation, vi) water resource management systems, and vii) soil–water–forest conservation/management systems sub-topics. The findings presented here are in line with SDG 6, which aims at ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by the year 2030.
Author : Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780443215841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Water Management in Africa written by Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Water Management in Africa: Lessons Learned and Future Directions provides an overview of the status of irrigation development and AWM practices and technologies in Africa and the global south. In addition, it provides guidelines, scenarios, and investment plans to guide the prioritization and operationalization of irrigation development and AWM under climate change. The African Union (AU) is driving investment and improvement in agricultural water management and transformation in Africa through the operationalization of the AU Irrigation Development and Agricultural Water Management in Africa (AU-IDAWM). The AU-IDAWM provides a framework that identifies four development pathways for enhanced agricultural water management practices across Africa. The pathways are as follows: (1) Pathway 1: Improved water control and watershed management in rain-fed farming, (2) Pathway 2: Farmer-led Irrigation Development (FLID), (3) Pathway 3: Irrigation scheme development and modernization, and (4) Pathway 4: Unconventional water use for irrigation.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 088936804X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Water Management in Africa and the Middle East written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1996 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Author : Christopher Ward
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464808333
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands written by Christopher Ward and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D ryland regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are home to one-half of the region’s population and three-quarters of its poor. Poor both in natural resources and in assets and income, the inhabitants of drylands are highly vulnerable to droughts and other shocks. Despite a long history of interventions by governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations, there have been no sustained large-scale successes toward improving the resilience of drylands dwellers. Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands describes the extent to which agricultural water management interventions in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa can enhance the resilience and improve the well-being of the people living in those regions, proposes what can realistically be done to promote improved agricultural water management, and sets out how stakeholders can make those improvements. After reviewing the current status of irrigation and agricultural water management in the drylands, the authors discuss technical, economic, and institutional challenges to expanding irrigation. A model developed at the International Food Policy Research Institute is used to project the potential for irrigation development in the Sahel Region and the Horn of Africa. The modeling results show that irrigation development in the drylands can reduce vulnerability and improve the resilience of hundreds of thousands of farming households, but rainfed agriculture will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, many soil and water conservation practices that can improve the productivity and ensure the sustainability of rainfed cropping systems are available. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the potentially highly benefi cial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture in association with agronomic improvements, market growth, and infrastructure development, and to assess the technological and socioeconomic conditions and institutional policy frameworks that can remove barriers to adoption and allow wide-scale take-up of improved agricultural water management in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Uptake of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in West Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry, Boubacar
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906847
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling written by Barry, Boubacar and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In West Africa, especially in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania, erratic rainfall sequences within and between years has often led to a high uncertainty in rainfed crop production. Over the past three decades, severe food shortages attributed to drought have been frequently reported in several Sahelian countries, most of which are amongst the least developed of the world. Innovative and indigenous ways to achieve improved crop yields through integrated land and water management such as rainwater harvesting and soil water conservation have been successfully tested and, in some cases, adopted in West Africa. This paper highlights the successful interventions of improved indigenous rainwater harvesting/soil water conservation technologies such as Zaï or tassa, stone rows and half-moon in the Sahelian zones of West Africa over the past 10 years, and their contributions to enhancing food security and alleviating poverty. The potential for adoption of these technologies at the farm level and their outscaling to areas with similar agroecological zones are also discussed.
Author : Valentina Mazzucato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rethinking Soil and Water Conservation in a Changing Society written by Valentina Mazzucato and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter M. Ahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book West African Soils written by Peter M. Ahn and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil formation; The soil and the plant; Soil examination, management, and improvement.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Soil Resource, Management, and Conservation Service
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251034422
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Soil Tillage in Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Soil Resource, Management, and Conservation Service and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicol, A.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290908130
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Water-smart agriculture in East Africa written by Nicol, A. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Graeme Donovan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821342367
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa written by W. Graeme Donovan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 408. This report is a critical review of the technical, economic, and institutional constraints on improving soil fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the actions recommended to address them. Action plans prepared for Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mali examine the demand for and supply of mineral fertilizers, the exploitation of local mineral resources, the prevention of soil erosion and increasing soil-water retention, and soil fertility management using organic technologies and management practices.
