Martin Whiteside

Living Farms

Encouraging Sustainable Smallholders in Southern Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed as an accessible text on sustainable agriculture, this book contains information on community organization and participation, technologies for sustainability and the wider policy and service environment. The book looks at a variety of ways of encouraging sustainability through policy change and service provision, including: ways of improving financial services; ways of improving land security; and ways of improving training. The book is illustrated by a range of case studies and examples, and contains lists of contact addresses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781853835902
• ISBN-10: 1853835900
• Artikelnr.: 31383444

Autorenporträt

Whiteside, Martin

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary and Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I: Introduction - Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa
Agriculture in Southern Africa
Can Sustainable Agriculture End Rural Poverty?
Part II: Resource-Conserving Technologies - The Damaging Bias Against Sustainability
Some Resource-Conserving Technologies
Part III: Sustaining Local Institutions - Why Local Organisation is Important
Farmer Groups and Unions
Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Part IV: Creating an Enabling External Environment - Secure access to Land
Agricultural Extension and Training for Sustainability
Making Markets Work for smallholder Sustainability
Coping with Drought
Part V: The Way Forward - Short-Term Financial Balance or Long-Term Sustainability and Poverty Eradication? Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix 1: Some Useful Addresses
Appendix 2: Sources of Information on Sustainable Agriculture
References
Index