Land Resource Management for Agricultural Development in Ghana
Author : R. Kasim Kasanga
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781842190043
Author : R. Kasim Kasanga
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781842190043
Author : David Dent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136546987
This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin sustainable local livelihoods. They draw on case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America to present findings relevant throughout the developing world.
Author : Stephen Bugu Kendie
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Land degradation
ISBN :
Author : L. Richard Meyers
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The theme of the 1989 agricultural symposium was " innovation in resource management ". It directs attention to the importance of technological and institutional innovation with which to conserve, as well as to increase, the productivity of the natural resource base on which agricultural development depends. In a period when many areas of the world are under pressure to increase agricultural production and/or are subject to increased ecological stress, innovation is urgently required to respond to these challenges. The symposium revolved around discussion groups on natural resource management ( water resource management, watershed management and soil conservation, the use of ground water, land tenure and productivity ), biotechnology, and livestock and cropping system interactions.
Author : R. Blench
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN :
Author : Maxwell Mudhara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1317278712
It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa. Analyses of four contrasting African countries (Ghana, Morocco, South Africa and Uganda) show that as communities directly face the challenges of land degradation, they are likely to develop initiatives themselves in terms of sustainable land management. These initiatives (or ‘innovations’) may be more appropriate and sustainable than those emanating from research stations located far from the communities. The book describes the rationale of the approach used, the set of steps followed, how the project managed to engage the communities to understand the importance of the activities they were undertaking, and how they were stimulated to improve and extend their initiatives and innovativeness. Examples covered include soil fertility, community forestry, afforestation, water, invasive species and grazing land management. Central to the book is the way communities, and scientists, interacted between the four countries and learnt from each other. The book also shows how the initiatives were outscaled locally.
Author : W. Asenso Okyere
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN :
Author : Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801867479
The devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This volume fills this gap by looking at how land degradation and deforestation are being addressed at the local level, where households have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa, Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management examines the evolution of land tenure institutions within diverse cultural, natural, and policy environments. Specific topics include the evolution of customary land tenure, the impacts of land tenure policies, and common property management. The editors conclude that the best strategy for managing land and forest resources lies in promoting the establishment of property rights and investment in the improvement of the natural resource base. Topics Include: Issues and Theoretical Framework; Quantitative Methodology; Agroforestry Management in Ghana; Agroforestry Management in Sumatra; Tree and Cropland Management in Malawi; Customary and Private Land Management in Uganda; Management of State Land and Privatization in Vietnam; Common Property Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal; Timber Forest Management in Nepal and Japan Toward New Paradigms of Land and Tree Resource Management.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251031315
Author : Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801871433
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and returns are unlikely to be adopted by farmers unless they have secure rights to the underlying resources (property rights). Similarly, technologies that span multiple farms are unlikely to be adopted unless neighbors and groups work together (collective action). But little is know about the way property rights and collective action in developing countries mediate the adoption of technologies by farmers and groups. To address this information gap, this volume brings together international experts in economics, sociology, and natural resource management to examine the links among property rights, collective action, and technological change for a variety of technologies across a rage of community contexts in the developing world.