Author: David W. NormanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Economic Analysis of Agricultural Production and Labour Utilisation Among the Hausa in the North of Nigeria
Author: David W. NormanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Alleviating Soil Fertility Constraints to Increased Crop Production in West Africa
Author: A. Uzo MokwunyePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401132240
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Tropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age. The legacy is that most of the parent materials of the soils of tropical Africa are old, highly weathered and devoid of bases and phosphate-bearing minerals. Traditional farming systems which were relatively stable and sustainable relied on long fallow periods after one to two years of cropping to maintain the productive capacity of the soils. In recent times and especially in densely populated areas, a sizeable class of 'landless' farmers have begun to cultivate marginal lands or to invade the 'forest reserves' thereby exacerbating the problems of land and environ mental degradation. of soil fertility that will facilitate the production of adequate quantities of the principle Maintaining a level staples has become a major challenge to agricultural scientists in tropical Africa. To increase the nutrient supplying power of soils requires the inputs of fertilizers. These can be organic or inorganic. The efficiency with which these externally supplied inputs can increase agricultural production and reduce soil and environmental deterioration is dependent on the ability of scientists to determine the right types and quantities of the products to apply to each soil, crop and cropping system as well as the ability of farmers to acquire requisite farm manage ment skills.
A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: Lee R. MartinPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816619429
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Development
Author: Stuart CorbridgePublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415205436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment. A unique set in its comprehensiveness and diversity, it also considers four key challenges for development theory and practice relating to capabilities, ethics, sustainability and regulation.
Appropriate Technologies for Farmers in Semi-arid West Africa
Author: Herbert W. OhmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The National Bibliography of Nigeria
Author: Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, a Keyword Index
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Farm-nonfarm Linkages in Rural Sub-saharan Africa
Author: Steven HaggbladePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The links between agricultural growth and the rural nonfarm economy, known to be strong in Asia, are weaker in Africa but still important to the rural poor. Crucial for strengthening these links are policies and investments that (1) promote smallholders, (2) improve rural infrastructure, (3) encourage commerce and services, (4) foster the development of rural towns, and (5) explicitly recognize women as key actors in rural development.
The Developing World
Author: E. S. SimpsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893328
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Addresses the issues faced by developing nations in attempting to secure sustainable economic development.
Telling Stories, Making Histories
Author: Mary Wren BivinsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031309442X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and challenge the written documentation of the Sokoto Caliphate. The personal narratives and folk stories reveal the importance of illiterate, non-elite women to the history of jihad and the assimilation of normative Islam in rural Hausaland. The captivating lives of the Hausa are captured, shedding light on their ordinary existence as wives, mothers, and providers for their family on the eve of European colonial conquest.