Research Catalog

Title

Towards sustainable farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Taye Bezuneh ... [et al.].

Author

African Association of Farming Systems Research-Extension and Training. International Symposium (2nd : 1996 : Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Publication

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso : AAFSRET : OAU/STRC-SAFGRAD, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Bezuneh, Taye, 1936-
• Semi-arid Food Grains Research and Development (Organization)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Organization of African Unity

Description

xxv, 582 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Vers des systèmes de production durable en Afrique sub-Saharienne
• Vers des systèmes de production durable en Afrique sub-Saharienne

Subject

• Sustainable agriculture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Agricultural systems > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Arid regions agriculture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Scientific papers presented at the Second International Symposium of the African Association of Farming Systems Research-Extention [sic] and Training (AAFSRET), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 21-23 August, 1996"--P. iii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Articles in English or French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Integrated soil fertility management approaches, examples from the Lake Zone in Tanzania / Robert Kiteo, Willem Heemskerk, and Geophrey Kajiru -- Approche théorique et méthodologique sur l'appropriation des technologies modernes par la Société Madarè du Burkina Faso / Thiamobiga D. Jacques et Zagre Ambroise -- Towards integrated soil fertility management / Toon Defoer [and others] -- Farming systems principles and project planning / Thomas Bachmann and Malcolm Hall -- Eléments d'une approche méthodologique de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l'environnement au Sahel / Idrissa Soumana et Maxime Banoin -- Specifying research to households and environments / Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Leonis Ndege, and Robert Kileo -- Problématique des besoins en technologies nouvelles dans la Zone Ouest du Burkina Faso / Dieudonné Ilboudo [and others] -- Cropping systems studies in Northern Guinea Savanna Zone of Ghana / J.M. Kombiok and E. Frey --^
• On-farm research : modifying some current maize production technologies to meet circumstances of smallholder farmers in parts of Northern Rift Valley, Kenya / Ruth M.A. Onyango [and others] -- Le programme de recherche de l'Equipe SPGRN-Sikasso en relation avec les évolutions dans les systèmes de production au Mali-Sud / W.A. Stoop et D. Kébé -- Intercropping soybean with maize or sorghum under farmer management in Northern Guinea Savanna Zone of Nigeria / J.E. Onyibe and J.O. Adeosun -- Spread of new soybean varieties in a traditional soybean growing area of Nigeria / Victor M. Manyong [and others] -- Apports de la recherche sur les systèmes de production à l'élaboration d'une méthode de conseil aux exploitations agricoles / P. Rebuffel [and others] -- La contributions des groupements paysans chercheurs à la recherche agricole / Bagayoko Siaka [and others] -- Farmers' participation in on-farm trials / G.S. Mkamilo, N.A. Katinila & E.M. Kafiriti --^
• Improving farmer participation in technology generation and transfer / J.O. Olukosi -- Intensive resource-based agriculture / George I. Abalu -- The impact of fertilizer subsidy withdrawal on the sustainability of maize production in the farming systems of Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria / Benjamin Ahmed [and others] -- Technology development for traditional cereals in the Sahelian countries / John H. Sanders and Jeffrey D. Vitale -- Dévaluation du F. CFA et comportement des agro-éleveurs du Mali-Sud / Demba Kébé [and others] -- An alternative approach to credit management for sustained agricultural production in Kenya / Amos Manyara Mwangi and Paul Mugo Maina -- L'impact du crédit agricole sur les systèmes de production / Souleymane Ouedraogo -- Striga research and control for sustainable food production in semi-arid Africa / Soon-Kwon Kim --^
• Evaluation de l'efficité des systèmes d'association dans la lutte contre le Striga hermonthica / Samaké, Odiaba; Yacouba K. Traoré; Amadou Kodio -- The impact of some on-farm technologies on food production and gender expectations in central and eastern Uganda / Beatrice N. Luzobe, Pierre Antoine -- Les femmes et le riz de Bas-Fond / Diarra Aminata Doucouré [and others] -- Les activités féminines dans la Région Ouest du Burkina Faso / Pascaline Lingani -- Land ownership and access to farm inputs and services by rural women in Nigeria / Chikwendu D.O. and Arokoyo, J.O. -- Rôle de la femme dans la filière coton en Zone Mali-Sud / Issiaka Dembele -- Les tendances majeures d'utilisation de la traction animale dans les pays francophones d'Afrique sub-saharienne / Havard M., Le Thiec G., Vall E. -- Prospects of animal traction research and technology transfer in the Ethiopian smallholder farming systems / Alemu Gebre Wold, Mengistu Alemayehu, and Taye Bekure --^
• Contribution à l'amélioration des stratégies paysannes d'intégration agriculture élevage / Nignan Man -- Animal traction ownership structure and utilization in the semi-arid zone of Nigeria / A.M. Omotayo, T.K. Atala, and S.A. Ogunwale -- The economic profitability of improved stall-fed cattle in semi-arid central Tanzania / Aloyce R.M. Kaliba -- L'embouche paysanne / Fatimata Dia -- Estimation of expenditure from heart rate during transport work of donkeys (Equus asinus Africanus) and determination of their working calendar in the Western Region of Niger / M. Buchenau and K. Becker -- Connaissance et amélioration de la productivité des bovins en milieu paysan au Nord-Cameroun / Njoya A. [and others] -- The effect of molasses and moisture on the nutritional quality of ensiled cowpea residue fed to goats / B. Koné, S.G. Solaiman, and M.A. Maloney --^
• Utilisation de gousses de Piliostigma reticulatum (Dc.) Hochst. et de feuilles de Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. en combinaison avec l'urée pour l'alimentation de moutons mossi à l'engrais au Burkina / Jean Sibiri Zoundi, Aimé Joseph Nianogo, Laya Sawadogo -- On-farm testing of improved calf-rearing technologies in Naivasha, Kenya / T.P. Lanyasunya [and others].

ISBN

9782453390

OCLC

• 62091161
• SCSB-11335499

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library