Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Integrating Crops and Livestock in West Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Mixed Farming
Author: Maja SlingerlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Conclusion.
Sustainable Crop-Livestock Production for Improved Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management in West Africa
Author: Williams, Timothy O.Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Integration Crops and Livestock in West Africa
Author: Agricultural Intensification and Efficiency in the West African Savannahs
Author: I. OkikePublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9789291460960
Category : Agricultural intensification
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Agroecosystem Diversity
Author: Gilles LemairePublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128110511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Agro-Ecosystem Diversity: Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality presents cutting-edge exploration of developing novel farming systems and introduces landscape ecology to agronomy. It encompasses the broad range of links between agricultural development and ecological impact and how to limit the potential negative results. Presented in seven sections, each focusing on a specific challenge to sustaining diversity, the book provides insights toward the argument that by re-introducing diversity, it should be possible to maintain a high level of productivity of agro-ecosystems while also maintaining and/or restoring a satisfactory level of environment quality and biodiversity. Demonstrates that diversified agro-ecosystems can be intensified with environmental quality preserved, restored and enhanced Includes analysis of economic constraints leading to specialization of farms and regions and the social locking forces resisting to diversification of agro-ecosystems Presents a global vision of world agriculture and the tradeoff between a necessary increase in food production and restoring environment quality
Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
Author: Paul RichardsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000865169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing on his experience of West Africa, the author demonstrates that many of the most successful innovations in food-crop production during the 20th century have indigenous roots and that there should therefore be less emphasis on ‘teaching’ farmers how to farm and more emphasis on how to foster and support local adaptation and inventiveness. This book will be of interest to students of agriculture, environmental studies and rural development as well as those working with relief and development agencies.
General Agriculture for West Africa
Author: Q.B. Olatunji AnthonioPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000681491
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 1979. This study examines various aspects of agriculture in West Africa. There is a strong chapter on the economics of agriculture and records, farm machinery, agricultural improvement, fish and the basics of crop and livestock production are all dealt with. The role of government policy in the improvement of agriculture is also examined. This title will be useful to undergraduates concerned with agriculture who want a good grounding before going on to their specialised fields of the applied sciences, as well as to those interested in commercial farming and policy makers in civil administration.
Cover Crops in West Africa
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 088936852X
Category : Cover crops
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Enhancing Crop-livestock Systems in Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Production Intensification
Author: A. H. KassamPublisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This is a story about how FAO assisted groups of farmers in five farming communities in the moist savanna zone of South Western Burkina Faso to enhance their crop-livestock systems through Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices, including crop diversification, using an innovative farmer discovery process, to bring about agricultural intensification and improvement in livelihoods. FAO worked with a range of stakeholders including the farmers and their communities to create convergence and enable a farmer-based discovery process to experiment with a set of fundamentally new principles and elements in their farming practices for integrated crop-livestock production intensification. The positive outcomes offer a real promise and an opportunity for bringing about a large scale impact on agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the moist savanna zone West Africa. This publication describes the multi-stakeholder process which led the successful outcomes, and the opportunity for a greater change that now exists and should be harnessed for sustainable agriculture development, nationally and regionally.