Martin Whiteside

Living Farms

Encouraging Sustainable Smallholders in Southern Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138179097
• ISBN-10: 1138179094
• Artikelnr.: 69992588

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