Sustainable agricultural intensification: a handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa

This book presents some of the improved agricultural technologies that were validated by the Africa RISING Project in East and Southern Africa (ESA), focusing on smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, and working in partnership with development (scaling) institutions. It consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 shows how gender concerns must be woven into all sustainable intensification (SI) interventions to produce equitable outcomes. It describes activities to enhance women's participation, measure the benefits, and transform gender relations. Chapter 2 describes the performance of new cereal and legume crop varieties introduced by Africa RISING into agroecosystems in which they had not been tested before. Chapter 3 presents technologies to diversify the common maize-dominated cropping systems and address human nutrition, improve soil organic matter, and maximize the benefits of applying fertilizer. Chapter 4 presents technologies for replacing the nutrients lost from cropped fields with external fertilizer sources in a manner that minimizes the consequences of too little or too much application. Chapter 5 is about soil conservation. Chapter 6 presents conservation agriculture, which can help smallholder farmers build better resilience to the consequences of climate change and variable weather. Improved technologies for drying, shelling, and hermetic storage of grain are presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 provides information to help farmers use outputs from crop production systems to formulate supplementary feed. Chapter 9 follows with technologies that allow well-planned nutrition-specific interventions (recipes) to utilize various livestock and crop products to enhance family nutrition, with specific attention paid to diets for children. Chapter 10 presents examples from the preceding chapters to illustrate the potential impacts of interconnected technologies. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents experiences and lessons learned from using these approaches to transfer and scale the technologies.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	1423211784629 Bekunda, M. (ed.), 175019 CAB International, Wallingford (United Kingdom) eng, 1423211770577 Hoeschle-Zeledon, I. (ed.), 1423211784651 Odhong, J. (ed.)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Wallingford (United Kingdom) CABI 2022
Subjects:	sustainability, smallholders, participation, legumes, cropping systems, soil organic matter, soil conservation, fertilizers, climatic change, weather, drying, shelling, crop production, diet, SDGs, Goal 2 Zero hunger, Goal 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15 Life on land,
Online Access:	https://www-cabi-org.fao.idm.oclc.org/cabebooks/ebook/20220167040
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