Sustainable Intensification (eBook, PDF)

Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems
Redaktion: Pretty, Jules N.; Toulmin, Camilla; Williams, Stella

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Produktbeschreibung

Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers.

This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136529283
• Artikelnr.: 38272674

Autorenporträt

Jules Pretty is Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, and Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, UK. His 16 books include This Luminous Coast (2011), The Earth Only Endures (2007), and Agri-Culture (2002). He is Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability and received an OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture, and an honorary degree from Ohio State University in 2009. Stella Williams is from Nigeria, and is a fisheries and agricultural economist with experitse in rural economic development. She has served on many international Boards where she ensures support for women and youth empowerment. She is an advocate for educational development across sub-Saharan Africa. Camilla Toulmin has studied land tenure, farming strategies and livelihood options in dryland Africa. An economist by training, she is Director of the IIED and a member of the UK government Foresight project.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Editorial  2. Overview - Sustainable Intensification in African
Agriculture  3. Quncho: The First Most Popular Tefvariety in Ethiopia  4.
The Ghana Grains Partnership  5. Orange-fleshed Sweet Potatoes for Food,
Health and Wealth in Uganda  6. Soyabeans and Sustainable Agriculture in
Southern Africa  7. Growing Sustainable Tea on Kenyan Smallholder Farms  8.
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a Sustainable Agricultural
Innovation: Introducing, Adapting and Scaling up Sri Practices in the
Timbuktu Region of Mali  9. Revival of Cassava Production in the
Nakasongola District, Uganda  10. Addressing the Challenges of Agricultural
Service Provision: The Case of Oxfam's Strategic Cotton Programme in Mali 
11. Promoting Smallholder Seed Enterprises (SSE): Quality Seed Production
of Rice, Maize, Sorghum and Millet in Northern Cameroon  12. Research,
Development and Scaling up the Adoption of Fodder Shrub Innovations in East
Africa  13. Trees, Agroforestry and Multifunctional Agriculture in
Cameroon  14. Using Soil and Water Conservation Techniques to Rehabilitate
Degraded Lands in Northwestern Burkina Faso  15. Agricultural Success from
Africa: The Case of Fertilizer Tree Systems in Southern Africa (Malawi,
Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)  16. Harnessing Sustainability,
Resilience and Productivity through Conservation Agriculture: The Case of
Likoti in Lesotho  17. Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Tanzania: The Case
of Mwangaza B CA Farmer Field School (FFS), Rhotia Village, Karatu
District, Arusha  18. An African Success: The Case of Conservation
Agriculture in Zimbabwe  19. Push-pull Technology: A Conservation
Agriculture Approach for Integrated Management of Insect Pests, Weeds and
Soil Health in Africa  20. Sustainable Crop Production Intensification in
the Senegal and Niger River Basins of Francophone West Africa  21. On-farm
Biological Control of the Pearl Millet Head Miner: Realization of
Thirty-five Years of Unsteady Progress in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger  22.
African Indigenous Vegetable Enterprises and Market Access for Small Scale
Farmers in East Africa  23. Merudairy Goat and Animal Healthcare Project 
24. Collective Livestock Research for Sustainable Disease Management in
Mali and Burkina Faso  25. The Rakai Chicken Model: An Approach that has
Improved Fortunes for Ugandan Farmers  26. The Malawi Agricultural Input
Subsidy Programme: 2005/6 to 2008/9  27. Focal Area Approach: A
Participatory Community Planning Approach to Agricultural Extension and
Market Development in Kenya  28. Sharing Ideas Between Cultures with
Videos  29. CARBAP and Innovation on the Pantain Banana in West and Central
Africa  30. The Rise of Peri-urban Aquaculture in Nigeria  31. From
Researcher to Farmer: Partnerships in Integrated Aquaculture - Agriculture
Systems in Malawi, Ghana and Cameroon