Natural resources management in African agriculture: understanding and improving current practices

Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1)  The challenge of stimulating adoption of improved natural resource management practices in African agriculture. Author(s): Barrett, C. B. Place, F. Aboud, A. A. Brown, D. R.    Chapter: 2 (Page no: 23)  Social capital and social learning in the process of natural resource management. Author(s): Pretty, J. Buck, L.    Chapter: 3 (Page no: 35)  The limits of knowledge: securing rural livelihoods in a situation of resource scarcity. Author(s): Peters, P. E.    Chapter: 4 (Page no: 51)  Farmers\' use and adaptation of alley farming in Nigeria. Author(s): Adesina, A. A. Chianu, J.    Chapter: 5 (Page no: 65)  Farmers as co-developers and adopters of green-manure cover crops in West and Central Africa. Author(s): Tarawali, G. Douthwaite, B. Haan, N. C. de Tarawali, S. A.    Chapter: 6 (Page no: 77)  Sustainable management of private and communal lands in Northern Ethiopia. Author(s): Gebremedhin, B. Swinton, S. M.    Chapter: 7 (Page no: 91)  Poverty and land degradation: peasants\' willingness to pay to sustain land productivity. Author(s): Holden, S. T. Shiferaw, B.    Chapter: 8 (Page no: 103)  Input use and conservation investments among farm households in Rwanda: patterns and determinants. Author(s): Clay, D. C. Kelly, V. Mpyisi, E. Reardon, T.    Chapter: 9 (Page no: 115)  Agroforestry adoption decisions, structural adjustment and gender in Africa. Author(s): Gladwin, C. H. Peterson, J. S. Phiri, D. Uttaro, R.    Chapter: 10 (Page no: 129)  Liquidity and soil management: evidence from Madagascar and Niger. Author(s): Wyatt, T. J.    Chapter: 11 (Page no: 143)  Smallholder farmers\' use of integrated nutrient-management strategies: patterns and possibilities in Machakos district of Eastern Kenya. Author(s): Freeman, H. A. Coe, R.    Chapter: 12 (Page no: 155)  Agroforestry for soil-fertility replenishment: evidence on adoption processes in Kenya and Zambia. Author(s): Place, F. Franzel, S. DeWolf, J. Rommelse, R. Kwesiga, F. Niang, A. Jama, B.    Chapter: 13 (Page no: 169)  Evaluating adoption of new crop-livestock-soil-management technologies using georeferenced village-level data: the case of cowpea in the dry savannahs of West Africa. Author(s): Kristjanson, P. Okike, I. Tarawali, S. A. Kruska, R. Manyong, V. M. Singh, B. B.    Chapter: 14 (Page no: 181)  Contradictions in agricultural intensification and improved natural resource management: issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar. Author(s): Freudenberger, M. S. Freudenberger, K. S.    Chapter: 15 (Page no: 193)  Synergies between natural resource management practices and fertilizer technologies: lessons from Mali. Author(s): Kelly, V. Sylla, M. L. Galiba, M. Weight, D.    Chapter: 16 (Page no: 205)  Soil and water conservation in semi-arid Tanzania: government policy and farmers\' practices. Author(s): Hatibu, N. Lazaro, E. A. Mahoo, H. F. Rwehumbiza, F. B. R.    Chapter: 17 (Page no: 219)  Initiatives to encourage farmer adoption of soil-fertility technologies for maize-based cropping systems in Southern Africa. Author(s): Mekuria, M. Waddington, S. R.    Chapter: 18 (Page no: 235)  A bio-economic model of integrated crop-livestock farming systems: the case of the Ginchi watershed in Ethiopia. Author(s): Okumu, B. N. Jabbar, M. A. Colman, D. Russell, N.    Chapter: 19 (Page no: 251)  Nutrient cycling in integrated plant-animal systems: implications for animal management strategies in smallholder farming systems. Author(s): Ndlovu, L. R. Mugabe, P. H.    Chapter: 20 (Page no: 261)  Natural resource technologies for semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Author(s): Shapiro, B. I. Sanders, J. H.    Chapter: 21 (Page no: 275)  Lessons for natural resource management technology adoption and research. Author(s): Place, F. Swallow, B. M. Wangila, J. Barrett, C. B.    Chapter: 22 (Page no: 287)  Towards improved natural resource management in African agriculture. Author(s): Barrett, C. B. Lynam, J. Place, F. Reardon, T. Aboud, A. A.