Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa
Smallholder farmers in semi-arid Africa are in an increasingly vulnerable position due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, demographic pressure and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as an alternative to restore soil productivity through increased water and nutrient use efficiencies in these regions. However, adoption of CA is low due to a number of technical reasons, but fundamentally due to the fact that CA has been often promoted as a package, without proper adaptation to local circumstances. Farmers engagement in designing and implementing locally suited CA practices, as part of a long term strategy of soil rehabilitation is the core approach followed by the ABACO initiative, which brings together scientists and practitioners from West, East and Southern Africa coordinated through the African Conservation Tillage Network (www.act-africa.org). ABACO relies on agro-ecologically intensive measures for soil rehabilitation and increased water productivity in semiarid regions, implemented, tested and disseminated through local co-innovation platforms. Rather than using rigid definitions of CA approaches that might not work in all sites, ABACO proposes to explore best engagement approaches for different sites. Simulation modelling is used as a support of long-term cross scale tradeoffs analysis from field to farms and territories, in order to inform effective policy-making. Preliminary results form the field are used here to illustrate and discuss the principles of ABACO, which may apply as well to regions other than semi-arid Africa.
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F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture P36 - Érosion, conservation et récupération des sols E14 - Économie et politique du développement agriculture alternative petite exploitation agricole conservation des sols récupération des sols modèle de simulation pratique culturale sécurité alimentaire innovation zone semi-aride agroécologie http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28792 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6474 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24242 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10967 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27560 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6963 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_166 F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture P36 - Érosion, conservation et récupération des sols E14 - Économie et politique du développement agriculture alternative petite exploitation agricole conservation des sols récupération des sols modèle de simulation pratique culturale sécurité alimentaire innovation zone semi-aride agroécologie http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28792 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6474 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24242 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10967 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27560 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6963 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_166 Tittonell, Pablo Scopel, Eric Andrieu, Nadine Posthumus, Héléna Mapfumo, P. Corbeels, Marc Van Halsema, G. Lahmar, Rabah Lugandu, S. Rakotoarisoa, Jacqueline Mtambanengwe, F. Pound, B. Chikowo, Régis Naudin, Krishna Triomphe, Bernard Mkomwa, Saidi Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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Smallholder farmers in semi-arid Africa are in an increasingly vulnerable position due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, demographic pressure and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as an alternative to restore soil productivity through increased water and nutrient use efficiencies in these regions. However, adoption of CA is low due to a number of technical reasons, but fundamentally due to the fact that CA has been often promoted as a package, without proper adaptation to local circumstances. Farmers engagement in designing and implementing locally suited CA practices, as part of a long term strategy of soil rehabilitation is the core approach followed by the ABACO initiative, which brings together scientists and practitioners from West, East and Southern Africa coordinated through the African Conservation Tillage Network (www.act-africa.org). ABACO relies on agro-ecologically intensive measures for soil rehabilitation and increased water productivity in semiarid regions, implemented, tested and disseminated through local co-innovation platforms. Rather than using rigid definitions of CA approaches that might not work in all sites, ABACO proposes to explore best engagement approaches for different sites. Simulation modelling is used as a support of long-term cross scale tradeoffs analysis from field to farms and territories, in order to inform effective policy-making. Preliminary results form the field are used here to illustrate and discuss the principles of ABACO, which may apply as well to regions other than semi-arid Africa. |
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F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture P36 - Érosion, conservation et récupération des sols E14 - Économie et politique du développement agriculture alternative petite exploitation agricole conservation des sols récupération des sols modèle de simulation pratique culturale sécurité alimentaire innovation zone semi-aride agroécologie http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28792 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6474 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24242 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10967 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27560 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6963 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_166 |
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Tittonell, Pablo Scopel, Eric Andrieu, Nadine Posthumus, Héléna Mapfumo, P. Corbeels, Marc Van Halsema, G. Lahmar, Rabah Lugandu, S. Rakotoarisoa, Jacqueline Mtambanengwe, F. Pound, B. Chikowo, Régis Naudin, Krishna Triomphe, Bernard Mkomwa, Saidi |
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Tittonell, Pablo Scopel, Eric Andrieu, Nadine Posthumus, Héléna Mapfumo, P. Corbeels, Marc Van Halsema, G. Lahmar, Rabah Lugandu, S. Rakotoarisoa, Jacqueline Mtambanengwe, F. Pound, B. Chikowo, Régis Naudin, Krishna Triomphe, Bernard Mkomwa, Saidi |
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Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa |
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agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (abaco): targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid africa |
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dig-cirad-fr-5641272024-01-28T20:24:52Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/564127/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/564127/ Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa. Tittonell Pablo, Scopel Eric, Andrieu Nadine, Posthumus Héléna, Mapfumo P., Corbeels Marc, Van Halsema G., Lahmar Rabah, Lugandu S., Rakotoarisoa Jacqueline, Mtambanengwe F., Pound B., Chikowo Régis, Naudin Krishna, Triomphe Bernard, Mkomwa Saidi. 2012. Field Crops Research, 132 : 168-174.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011> Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa Tittonell, Pablo Scopel, Eric Andrieu, Nadine Posthumus, Héléna Mapfumo, P. Corbeels, Marc Van Halsema, G. Lahmar, Rabah Lugandu, S. Rakotoarisoa, Jacqueline Mtambanengwe, F. Pound, B. Chikowo, Régis Naudin, Krishna Triomphe, Bernard Mkomwa, Saidi eng 2012 Field Crops Research F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture P36 - Érosion, conservation et récupération des sols E14 - Économie et politique du développement agriculture alternative petite exploitation agricole conservation des sols récupération des sols modèle de simulation pratique culturale sécurité alimentaire innovation zone semi-aride agroécologie http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28792 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6474 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24242 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10967 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27560 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6963 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 Afrique au sud du Sahara http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_166 Smallholder farmers in semi-arid Africa are in an increasingly vulnerable position due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, demographic pressure and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as an alternative to restore soil productivity through increased water and nutrient use efficiencies in these regions. However, adoption of CA is low due to a number of technical reasons, but fundamentally due to the fact that CA has been often promoted as a package, without proper adaptation to local circumstances. Farmers engagement in designing and implementing locally suited CA practices, as part of a long term strategy of soil rehabilitation is the core approach followed by the ABACO initiative, which brings together scientists and practitioners from West, East and Southern Africa coordinated through the African Conservation Tillage Network (www.act-africa.org). ABACO relies on agro-ecologically intensive measures for soil rehabilitation and increased water productivity in semiarid regions, implemented, tested and disseminated through local co-innovation platforms. Rather than using rigid definitions of CA approaches that might not work in all sites, ABACO proposes to explore best engagement approaches for different sites. Simulation modelling is used as a support of long-term cross scale tradeoffs analysis from field to farms and territories, in order to inform effective policy-making. Preliminary results form the field are used here to illustrate and discuss the principles of ABACO, which may apply as well to regions other than semi-arid Africa. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/564127/1/document_564127.pdf application/pdf Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.011 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/purl/https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/MB93LU info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/purl/https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/KQHB5H info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/purl/https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/WTWC7Y |