Author: Diana HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shifting cultivation
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Labour Aspects of Shifting Cultivation in African Agriculture
Author: Diana HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shifting cultivation
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Institutional Aspects of Shifting Cultivation in Africa
Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251014981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Farming Systems of the African Savanna
Author: A. KerPublisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889367930
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis
Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation
Author: Arild AngelsenPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851998992
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Cassava in Shifting Cultivation
Author: Louise O. FrescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Cum laude graduation (with distinction).
The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
Author: James W. WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033411
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
An exploration of preindustrial agriculture that applies insights from biodemography, physiological ecology, and household demography.
The Right to Practice Shifting Cultivation as a Traditional Occupation in Nepal
Author: Kamal Prasad AryalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shifting cultivation
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Proceedings of the First West African Agricultural Conference
Author: Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization: A Framework for Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251308713
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This framework presents ten interrelated principles/elements to guide Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa (SAMA). Further, it presents the technical issues to be considered under SAMA and the options to be analysed at the country and sub regional levels. The ten key elements required in a framework for SAMA are as follows: The analysis in the framework calls for a specific approach, involving learning from other parts of the world where significant transformation of the agricultural mechanization sector has already occurred within a three-to-four decade time frame, and developing policies and programmes to realize Africa’s aspirations of Zero Hunger by 2025. This approach entails the identification and prioritization of relevant and interrelated elements to help countries develop strategies and practical development plans that create synergies in line with their agricultural transformation plans. Given the unique characteristics of each country and the diverse needs of Africa due to the ecological heterogeneity and the wide range of farm sizes, the framework avoids being prescriptive.
Farmers in the Forest
Author: Peter R. KunstadterPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Farmers in the Forest, while using examples chiefly from northern Thailand, is concerned with complex problems found in all tropical countries. In these areas rapid population growth, increasing demands for food, and burgeoning international markets for forest products and other raw materials are associated with active competition for land and natural resources in upland areas. This book brings together studies by administrators, agronomists, anthropologists, forest ecologists, geographers and jurists, who describe a variety of swidden systems and their effect on soil, forest, society, and economy. They point to conflicts between traditional farming systems and modern legal and administrative constraints now being imposed, and they describe special and technological conditions that contribute to a marginal, stagnant upland economy, increasing socio-economic disparities with the lowlands, and the serious ecological consequences of these conditions. Several possible solutions are suggested to solve these problems.