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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785122103321

Titolo

Supporting small-scale farmers and rural organisations [[electronic resource] ] : learning from experiences in West Africa ; a handbook for development operators and local managers / / scientific editors, Sylvain Perret and Marie-Rose Mercoiret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Menlopark, Republic of South Africa, : Protea Book House

Newtown, Republic of South Africa, : IFAS

Montpellier, France, : CIRAD, 2003

ISBN

2-7592-1534-2

2-7592-0787-0

Edizione

[1st English ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MercoiretMarie-Rose

PerretS (Sylvain)

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Farm management - Study and teaching - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Farm management - Africa, West - Study and teaching

Farmers - Services for - Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Farmers - Services for - Africa, West

Farms, Small - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Farms, Small - Africa, West

Rural development - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Rural development - Africa, West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Advanced translation and edition: Sylvain Perret and Marie-Rose Mercoiret ... Basic translation: Jean Pierre Akima Mavlan and Roger Pambu"--T.p verso.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Content; Foreword; Introduction; Part one : Procedures; Chapter I. Local planning; Chapter II. Diagnosis; Chapter III. On-farm experimentation; Chapter IV. Monitoring and evaluation; Part two : The Tools; Chapter V. Training of farmers; Chapter VI. The farmers' organisation; Chapter VII. Contacts between role-players; Part three : The Fields of Intervention; Chapter VIII. Extension services and farm



management advice; Chapter IX. Natural resources management; Chapter X. Product management; Chapter XI. Management of collective assets and facilities

Chapter XII. Financing local developmentChapter XIII. Women and development; Chapter XIV. The non-agricultural sector