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Sustaining the soil : indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa
- Title
- Sustaining the soil : indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa / edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin.
- Publication
- London : Earthscan Publications, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | S625.A35 S877 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book gives a thorough comparative analysis of soil and water conservation practices across Africa. It then goes on to compare the benefits of existing indigenous techniques against new, externally derived solutions.
- Subject
- Soil conservation > Africa
- Water conservation > Africa
- Agricultural conservation > Africa
- 48.34 irrigation, drainage
- 48.36 soil cultivation
- Pays en développement
- Gestion des sols
- Conservation de l'eau
- Développement durable
- Agricultural conservation
- Soil conservation
- Water conservation
- Bodenschutz
- Gewässerschutz
- Bodemconservering
- Waterhuishouding
- Landbouw
- Afrique
- Africa
- Afrika
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Sustaining the soil: indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa / Ian Scoones, Chris Reij and Camilla Toulmin -- 2. Making the most of local knowledge: water harvesting in the Red Sea Hills of Northern Sudan / Mohamed Osman El Sammani and Sayed Mohamed Ahmed Dabloub -- 3. Drought and the need to change: the expansion of water harvesting in Central Darfur, Sudan / Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed -- 4. mastery of water: SWC practices in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco / M. Ait Hamza -- 5. Mountains, foothills and plains: investing in SWC in Morocco / Miloud Chaker, H. El Abbassi and A. Laouina -- 6. Improved traditional planting pits in the Tahoua Department (Niger): an example of rapid adoption by farmers / Abdou Hassan -- 7. Rehabilitating degraded land: zai in the Djenne Circle of Mali / Joanne Wedum, Yaya Doumbia, Boubacar Sanogo, Gouro Dicko and Oussoumana Cisse -- 8.
- 15. How rice cultivation became an 'indigenous' farming practice in Maswa district, Tanzania / J.M. Shaka, J.A. Ngailo and J.M. Wickama -- 16. Making the most of compost: a look at wafipa mounds in Tanzania / A.C. Mbegu -- 17. Cultivating the valleys: vinyungu farming in Tanzania / Anderson J. Lema -- 18. Pit cultivation in the Matengo Highlands of Tanzania / A.E.M. Temu and S. Bisanda -- 19. 'Back to the grass strips': a history of soil conservation policies in Swaziland / M. Osunade and C. Reij -- 20. 'flexibility' of indigenous SWC techniques: a case study of the Harerge Highlands, Ethiopia / Kebede Asrat, Kederalah Idris and Mesfin Semegn -- 21. Traditional ditches in Northern Shewa, the Ethiopian Highlands / Million Alemayehu -- 22. Creating an inventory of indigenous SWC measures in Ethiopia / Hans-Joachim Kruger, Berhanu Fantaw, Yohannes G. Michael and Kefeni Kajela -- 23. Local farming in the former Transkei, South Africa / Kevin Phillips-Howard and Chris Oche -- 24. Traditional SWC techniques in the Mandara Mountains, Northern Cameroon / Francois Hiol Hiol, Dieudonne Ndoum Mbeyo and Francois Tchala Abina -- 25. New perspectives on local conservation techniques: a case study from Malawi / Julius H. Mangisoni and G.S. Phiri -- 26. rapid evolution of small-basin irrigation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria / Kevin Phillips-Howard -- 27. SWC system under threat: a visit to Maku, Nigeria / E.M. Igbokwe -- 28. Evolution of traditional techniques of soil conservation in the Bamileke region, West Cameroon / Paul Tchawa.
- ISBN
- 185383372X
- 9781853833724
- OCLC
- ocm35906566
- 35906566
- SCSB-379855
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library