Author : David Norman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429696884
This book embodies work stretching over a fifteen year period. As a result· inevitably we are greatly indebted to a number of institutions and a large number of individuals. Over the years considerable administrative and financial help was provided by the Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, the Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the northern states of Nigeria, the Ford Foundation, and more recently, Kansas State University.
Author : A. Ker
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 0889367930
Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis
Author : David Norman
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1982-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046272
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cover crops
ISBN : 088936852X
Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Author : Michael P. Collinson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9789251043110
This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.
Author : David Norman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2021-03-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780367170042
Presenting the case for a farming systems approach to research in developing countries, this book considers the role of new technology and appropriate development strategies in improving agricultural production and the welfare of farming families in the semi-arid tropical region of West Africa.
Author : Hans Ruthenberg
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.
Author : Ecoregional Program for the Humid and SubHumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Workshop
Publisher : IITA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9781311851
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309048389
This valuable book summarizes recent research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use. It is a useful introduction to a field in which little quantitative research has been conducted and in which there is a great deal of public controversy. The book includes case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries that demonstrate the varied effects of population growth on land use. Several general chapters address the following timely questions: What is meant by land use change? Why are ecological research and population studies so different? What are the implications for sustainable growth in agricultural production? Although much work remains to be done in quantifying the causal connections between demographic and land use changes, this book provides important insights into those connections, and it should stimulate more work in this area.
