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Natural resources management in African agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud
| Natural resources management in African agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarrettChristopher B (Christopher Brendan)
PlaceFrank, Dr. AboudAbdillahi A |
| Soggetto topico | Agricultural resources - Africa - Management |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-82974-5
9786610829743 0-85199-882-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture 1 -- C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown -- PART I: FARMERS' OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING PROCESSES -- 2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management 23 -- J. Pretty and L. Buck -- 3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity 35 -- P.E. Peters -- 4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria 51 -- A.A. Adesina andJ. Chianu -- 5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa 65 -- G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali -- PART II: WILLINGNESS AND CAPACITY TO MAKE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS -- 6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia 77 -- B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton -- 7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity 91 -- S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw -- 8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants 103 -- D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon -- 9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa 115 -- C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro -- PART III: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESOURCE BASE -- 10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129 -- TI Wyatt -- 11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya 143 -- H.A. Freeman and R. Coe -- 12. Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia 155 -- F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and -- B. Jama -- 13. Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa 169 -- P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and -- B.B. Singh -- 14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar 181 -- M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger -- PART IV: THE AGROECOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT -- 15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali 193 -- V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight -- 16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices 205 -- N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza -- 17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa 219 -- M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington -- 18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia 235 -- B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell -- 19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems 251 -- L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe -- 20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa 261 -- B.I. Shapiro andJ.H. Sanders -- PART V: TOWARDS IMPROVED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE -- 21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research 275 -- F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett -- 22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 287 -- C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456034203321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Natural resources management in African agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud
| Natural resources management in African agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarrettChristopher B (Christopher Brendan)
PlaceFrank, Dr. AboudAbdillahi A |
| Soggetto topico | Agricultural resources - Africa - Management |
| ISBN |
1-280-82974-5
9786610829743 0-85199-882-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture 1 -- C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown -- PART I: FARMERS' OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING PROCESSES -- 2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management 23 -- J. Pretty and L. Buck -- 3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity 35 -- P.E. Peters -- 4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria 51 -- A.A. Adesina andJ. Chianu -- 5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa 65 -- G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali -- PART II: WILLINGNESS AND CAPACITY TO MAKE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS -- 6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia 77 -- B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton -- 7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity 91 -- S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw -- 8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants 103 -- D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon -- 9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa 115 -- C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro -- PART III: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESOURCE BASE -- 10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129 -- TI Wyatt -- 11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya 143 -- H.A. Freeman and R. Coe -- 12. Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia 155 -- F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and -- B. Jama -- 13. Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa 169 -- P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and -- B.B. Singh -- 14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar 181 -- M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger -- PART IV: THE AGROECOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT -- 15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali 193 -- V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight -- 16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices 205 -- N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza -- 17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa 219 -- M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington -- 18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia 235 -- B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell -- 19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems 251 -- L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe -- 20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa 261 -- B.I. Shapiro andJ.H. Sanders -- PART V: TOWARDS IMPROVED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE -- 21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research 275 -- F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett -- 22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 287 -- C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780319103321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Natural resources management in African agriculture : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud
| Natural resources management in African agriculture : understanding and improving current practices / / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Frank Place, and Abdillahi A. Aboud |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarrettChristopher B (Christopher Brendan)
PlaceFrank, Dr. AboudAbdillahi A |
| Soggetto topico | Agricultural resources - Africa - Management |
| ISBN |
1-280-82974-5
9786610829743 0-85199-882-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture 1 -- C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown -- PART I: FARMERS' OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING PROCESSES -- 2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management 23 -- J. Pretty and L. Buck -- 3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity 35 -- P.E. Peters -- 4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria 51 -- A.A. Adesina andJ. Chianu -- 5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa 65 -- G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali -- PART II: WILLINGNESS AND CAPACITY TO MAKE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS -- 6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia 77 -- B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton -- 7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity 91 -- S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw -- 8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants 103 -- D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon -- 9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa 115 -- C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro -- PART III: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESOURCE BASE -- 10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129 -- TI Wyatt -- 11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya 143 -- H.A. Freeman and R. Coe -- 12. Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia 155 -- F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and -- B. Jama -- 13. Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa 169 -- P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and -- B.B. Singh -- 14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar 181 -- M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger -- PART IV: THE AGROECOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT -- 15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali 193 -- V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight -- 16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices 205 -- N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza -- 17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa 219 -- M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington -- 18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia 235 -- B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell -- 19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems 251 -- L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe -- 20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa 261 -- B.I. Shapiro andJ.H. Sanders -- PART V: TOWARDS IMPROVED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE -- 21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research 275 -- F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett -- 22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 287 -- C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828137703321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Trees on the farm [[electronic resource] ] : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr
| Trees on the farm [[electronic resource] ] : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9/9/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FranzelSteven Charles
ScherrSara J |
| Soggetto topico |
Agroforestry systems - Africa
Agroforestry - Technology transfer - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-82965-6
9786610829651 0-85199-884-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods for Assessing Agroforestry Adoption Potential; 3 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia; 4 The Adoption Potential of Short Rotation Improved Tree Fallows: Evidence from Western Kenya; 5 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Hedgerow Intercropping for Improving Soil Fertility, Western Kenya; 6 Farmer-designed Agroforestry Trials: Farmers' Experiences in Western Kenya; 7 Calliandra calothyrsus: Assessing the Early Stages of Adoption of a Fodder Shrub in the Highlands of Central Kenya
8 Promoting New Agroforestry Technologies: Policy Lessons from On-farm Research9 Assessing Adoption Potential: Lessons Learned and Future Directions; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456059203321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Trees on the farm [[electronic resource] ] : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr
| Trees on the farm [[electronic resource] ] : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9/9/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FranzelSteven Charles
ScherrSara J |
| Soggetto topico |
Agroforestry systems - Africa
Agroforestry - Technology transfer - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-280-82965-6
9786610829651 0-85199-884-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods for Assessing Agroforestry Adoption Potential; 3 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia; 4 The Adoption Potential of Short Rotation Improved Tree Fallows: Evidence from Western Kenya; 5 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Hedgerow Intercropping for Improving Soil Fertility, Western Kenya; 6 Farmer-designed Agroforestry Trials: Farmers' Experiences in Western Kenya; 7 Calliandra calothyrsus: Assessing the Early Stages of Adoption of a Fodder Shrub in the Highlands of Central Kenya
8 Promoting New Agroforestry Technologies: Policy Lessons from On-farm Research9 Assessing Adoption Potential: Lessons Learned and Future Directions; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780319803321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Trees on the farm : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr
| Trees on the farm : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9/9/096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FranzelSteven Charles
ScherrSara J |
| Soggetto topico |
Agroforestry systems - Africa
Agroforestry - Technology transfer - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-280-82965-6
9786610829651 0-85199-884-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods for Assessing Agroforestry Adoption Potential; 3 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia; 4 The Adoption Potential of Short Rotation Improved Tree Fallows: Evidence from Western Kenya; 5 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Hedgerow Intercropping for Improving Soil Fertility, Western Kenya; 6 Farmer-designed Agroforestry Trials: Farmers' Experiences in Western Kenya; 7 Calliandra calothyrsus: Assessing the Early Stages of Adoption of a Fodder Shrub in the Highlands of Central Kenya
8 Promoting New Agroforestry Technologies: Policy Lessons from On-farm Research9 Assessing Adoption Potential: Lessons Learned and Future Directions; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829057703321 |
| Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
