Guidelines For Training In Rapid Appraisal For Agroforestry Research And Extension

Author : N. O. J. Abel
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Guidelines for Training in Rapid Appraisal for Agroforestry Research and Extension written by N. O. J. Abel and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These guidelines are for training research and extension personnel in rapid appraisal methods for development of agroforestry in peasant land use systems. The guidelines are illustrated through reference to a training and research exercise where an agropastoral farming system in Shurugwi Communal Area, Zimbabwe was appraised in 1998.Four key principles underlie the methods used:* agroforestry interventions are identified and developed through working with and learning from farmers and the local community, as well as through conventional research assessment - "interactive research"* interactive research is best learned through real application not lectures or classroom exercises and simulations - "learning by doing"* "interdisciplinary" is a key to successful interactive research* agroforestry interventions are developed from an understanding of constraints and conflicts existing within the rural community over access to production resources.Nick Abel is a Lecturer in Natural Resources at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia with twenty years of research experience in rural East, Central and Southern Africa; Mike Drinkwater is a lecturer in Rural Sociology for Developing countries at the Agricultural University in Wageningen, The Netherlands and was formerly working with the Departments of Physical Planning and Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services in Zimbabwe; Julie Ingram is a soil scientist with experience in developing countries in Africa and Asia; Jonathan Okafor is the Chief Conservator of Forests in Enugu, Nigeria; and Roslyn Prinsley is the Project Officer for Agricultural Sciences at the Commonwealth Science Council in London, UK.

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ISBN 13 : 9781848594531
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9780850924657
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Women and Natural Resource Management written by and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This training manual is designed to assist rural and urban-fringe women in the African region to develop sustainable farming practices and to conserve local natural and living resources, to enable women to build upon and exchange their indigenous knowledge and to enable them to benefit directly from sustainable resource management. It is aimed at those working with rural women in the fields of sustainable agriculture and natural resource conservation.

Author : Louise E. Buck
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420049473
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems written by Louise E. Buck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-12-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems examines the environmental and social conditions that affect the roles and performance of trees in field- and forest-based agricultural production systems. Various types of ecological settings for agroforestry are analyzed within temperate and tropical regions. The roles of soil, water, light, nutrient and pest management in mixed, annual, woody perennial and livestock systems are discussed. Important new case studies from around the world offer innovative strategies that have been used successfully in raising forests and tree products on a sustainable basis for commercial harvesting and for providing other environmental services in land conservation and watershed management.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Soil Resources, Management, and Conservation Service
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251032824
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : John F. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940091637X
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture written by John F. Fitzgerald and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. As of the first session of the Conference of the Parties, 128 nations had ratified the Convention. Among their other commitments, Parties to the Convention must develop and periodically update national inventories of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions using comparable methodologies, and must develop and implement national programs to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. To further the development of emission inventories and mitigation options within the African context, 64 governmental and non-governmental scientists and policy analysts from 23 nations gathered at a workshop near Johannesburg, South Africa from 29 May to 2 June 1995. The workshop focused on forestry, land-use change, and agriculture, because these sectors not only are responsible for the majority of emissions from the continent and provide promising opportunities for emissions mitigation, but also are a vital component of African economic growth and development. This book presents the workshop's major conclusions and findings, as well as individual papers that were prepared for the workshop, each of which was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication as part of the workshop process. The papers cover four areas: (1) issues are associated with data collection and emission factor determination; (2) problems associated with applying the IPCC inventory methodologies in Africa; (3) results of national inventory assessments in Africa; and (4) possible emissions mitigation options and methods for evaluating their potential viability. As the first book dedicated solely to greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options in Africa, this will be an invaluable resource to scientists, policymakers, and development specialists interested in global climate change and Africa.

Author : Carol Kerven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Author : Jerker Carlsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349232068
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book The Political Economy of Evaluation written by Jerker Carlsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic impact of aid, but not in the sense that it questions the relevance of this objective, or tries to measure whether aid works or not. The focus of this book is on the evaluation process itself. Can aid evaluation be improved in order to increase the effectiveness of aid?

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Total Pages : 454 pages
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