Author: International Livestock Centre for Africa
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Published:
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: International Livestock Centre for Africa
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Published:
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henk Mutsaers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 131551883X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and assesses the position of research within the research-to-development continuum, including how innovations have been validated with the intended beneficiaries. Using the experience of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as a case study, the authors analyse how processes, partnerships and other factors have affected research priorities, the delivery of outputs, and their uptake by farming communities in SSA. They evaluate both successes and failures of past investments in soil fertility research and important lessons learnt which provide crucial information for national and international scientists currently engaged in this research area. The book is organised in a number of chapters each covering a chronological period characterised by its primary research content and approaches and by the dominant research paradigms and delivery models.
Author: Pay Drechsel
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1844077969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Pay Drechsel
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2014-09-17
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9290907983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: D. Pasternak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1461513278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The conference "Combating Desertification with Plants" was held in Beer Sheva, Israel, from November 2-5, 1999, and was attended by 70 participants from 30 countries and/or international organisations. Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred millions. The measures required to halt and reverse the process of desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional, sociological-anthropological, and technical. Although technical "solutions" are not currently in vogue, the conference organizers felt that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far in the direction of "participatory approaches." Hence IPALAC - The International Program for Arid Land Crops - whose function is to serve as a catalyst for optimizing the contribution of plant germplasm to sustainable development in desertification-prone regions - felt the time was opportune for providing a platform for projects where the "plant-driven" approach to development finds expression. Some 45 papers were delivered at the conference, falling into the categories of this volume: Overview, Potential Germplasm for Arid Lands, Introduction, Domestication and Dissemination of Arid Land Plants, Land Rehabilitation, and Mechanisms of Plant Transfer. The conference was funded by UNESCO (Division of Ecological Sciences), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and MASHAV, Israel's Center for International Development Cooperation.