Improved crop productivity for Africa's drylands / / Tom Walker [and three others]

• Autore: Walker T. S.
• Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 p.)
• Disciplina: 630.915/40967
• Soggetto topico: Arid regions agriculture - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Crop yields - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): WalkerTom
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2 Dry Spells, Poor Soils, and Dryland Zones; Drought; Low Soil Fertility; Defining Dryland Cropping in Sub-Saharan Africa; Notes; Chapter 3 Prospects for Genetic Improvement; Maintaining and Accelerating the Pace of Varietal Change; Prospects for New Varieties Well-adapted to the Drylands; Cereal Hybrids in West Africa; Notes; Chapter 4 Prospects for Improved Crop Management; Intensification of Input Use; Conservation Agriculture; Microdosing Fertilizer ; Seed TreatmentsChapter 5 Prospects for Improved Land Management; Improved Intercropping Systems; Agroforestry Innovations Appropriate for the Drylands; Animal Traction; Response Farming; Chapter 6 Crop and Rainfall Insurance; Chapter 7 Climate Change; Chapter 8 Technology Diffusion Prospects by 2030; Prospects in the Arid Zone; Prospects in the Dry Semi-Arid Zone; Prospects in the Wet Semi-arid Zone; Prospects in the Dry Sub-humid Zone; Research and Technology Transfer Costs; Note; Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions; References; Boxes ; 2.1 Extensification versus Intensification in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa2.2 Planting is Risky in the Drylands; 2.3 Intensive Cases Studies versus Large-scale Surveys in Analyzing Coping Strategies; 2.4 Historical Incidence and Severity of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa; 2.5 Institutional Response to Recurring Drought in Niger; 3.1 Release of First Striga-resistant Sorghum Varieties Developed Using Marker-Assisted Selection; 3.2 Possibility of Producing Irrigated Pearl Millet During the Dry Hot Season in the Sahel; 3.3 Pearl Millet and Sorghum Hybrids in India ; 4.1 Risk and Expected Profitability in Dryland Agriculture5.1 Tank Irrigation: Water Harvesting and Storage in Peninsular India; 6.1 Risk Benefits from Crop Insurance; Figures ; 2.1 Relationship between Cereal Production and Rainfall, 1960 to 2000, Burkina Faso; 2.2 Distribution of Countries by Cropped Area Across the Dryland Zones and Total; 2.3 Share of Area (%) by Crop Category by Dryland Zone; 3.1 Adoption of Modern Varieties by Crop, 2010 (% of area harvested); 3.2 Adoption of Maize and Cassava Improved Cultivars, 1997/98 versus 2009/10 ; 4.1 Area-weighted Dryland Maize Yield Distributions by Agro-ecologyTables ; 2.1 Composition of Rainfed Crop Area, circa 2000, Sub-Saharan Africa; 2.2 Characteristics of Dryland Crop Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa); 2.3 Relative Importance of Crops in Dryland Areas, circa 2000, Sub-Saharan Africa; 2.4 Relative Importance of Dryland Cropping in Sub-Saharan Africa; 3.1 Weighted Average Percent Adoption by Crop Across AI Zones, 2010; 7.1 Effect of Warming and CO2 Increase on Crop Yields to 2050 ; 8.1 Most Promising Crop Productivity Improvement Technologies for Arid Zones, 2030
• Titolo autorizzato: Improved crop productivity for Africa's drylands
• ISBN: 1-4648-0897-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910466082803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank Studies