Working with Farmers for Better Land Husbandry
Norman Hudson, Rodney Cheatle, Adrian Woods, Francis Gichuki
Examines the sustainability of farming systems, the importance of women in agriculture, and the importance of involving landholders at all stages of development. An instructive sourcebook for training programmes, NGO fieldworkers, donors and agencies.
Published: 1992
Pages: 272
eBook: 9781780446493
Paperback: 9781853391224
| Preface | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| N.W. HUDSON | |||
| Making Conservation Farmer-Friendly | |||
| M.G. DOUGLAS | |||
| Soil and Water Management for the Nineties - New | |||
| Pressures, New Objectives | |||
| N.W. HUDSON | |||
| CURRENT RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA | |||
| Introduction | |||
| F.N. GICHUKI | |||
| Soil Conservation: an Ethiopian experience | |||
| B.W. AREGAY and P.A. CHADHOKAR | |||
| Sustainable Soil and Water Management in Malawi | |||
| L.A.C. BWEYA and N.J. MULENGA | |||
| Soil and.Water Conservation in Tanzania | |||
| F.B.S. KAIHURA and J.G. MOW0 | |||
| Soil and Water Management in Uganda | |||
| E.S. TAMALE | |||
| Soil and Water Management in Zambia | |||
| N. MUKANDA and R. MWIINGA | |||
| Soil and Water Conservation in Zimbabwe | |||
| S. KAVALO and G. NEHANDA | |||
| Current Aid Agency Approaches to Soil and Water | |||
| Conservation | |||
| P. EWELL, D. HUGHES, D.W. SANDERS and R. GALLAGHER, | |||
| J.K. RANSOM, A. WOOD, C.S. WORTMANN | |||
| Donor Perspectives | |||
| JOHN LYNAM | |||
| SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES | |||
| Introduction | |||
| EVA TOBISSON | |||
| Changing Roles | |||
| Integrating a Socio-economic Perspective into Soil and | |||
| Water Management in Zambia 64 | |||
| A.J. SUTHERLAND | |||
| ECONOMIC ISSUES | |||
| Economic Considerations for Participatob3Q evei'¹menot f ' | |||
| Natural Resources 7 1 | |||
| J.P. HUNTER | |||
| Economic Management of Natural Resources by Rural | |||
| Communities 77 | |||
| N. REYNOLDS | |||
| PARTICIPATORY APPRAISAL, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT | |||
| Introduction | |||
| R.J. CHEATLE | |||
| Participatory Rural Appraisal | |||
| ROBERT CHAMBERS | |||
| Sustainable Small Farm Development - Frontiers in Participation 96 | |||
| ROBERT CHAMBERS | |||
| participatory Rural Appraisal for Agroforestry - . ' 101 | |||
| M. AVILA | |||
| A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Socio-economic | |||
| Constraints and Research Priorities 104 | |||
| A.J. SUTHERLAND and L.P. SINGOGO | |||
| OPPORTUNITIES AND BENEFITS | |||
| Introduction | |||
| N.W. HUDSON | |||
| Choosing Conservation Measures for Cropland on | |||
| Smallholdings in Kenya 117 | |||
| D.B. THOMAS | |||
| A Strategy for Better Land Husbandry at Thabana Morena 126 | |||
| T.F. SHAXSON | |||
| Smallholder Adoption of Some Land Husbandry Practices | |||
| in Kenya 130 | |||
| R.J. CHEATLE and S.N.J. NJOROGE | |||
| Cash Incomes and Conservation: increasing both | |||
| simultaneously 141 | |||
| S. CAIGER | |||
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES | |||
| Community Participation | |||
| P. VEIT | |||
| Erosion Control in Machakos, Kenya | |||
| B. THOMAS-SLAYTER, C. KABUTHA, and R. FORD | |||
| Conservation in Bariadi, Tanzania | |||
| THE REV. H. GAPPA | |||
| Community Soil Conservation in Kabale, Uganda 162 | |||
| E.M. TUKAHIRWA and P. VEIT | |||
| Agroforestry by Mobisquads in Ghana | |||
| C. DORM-ADZOBU, 0 . AMPUDU-AGYEI, and P. VEIT | |||
| Water Harvesting in Darfur, Sudan | |||
| YAGOUB A. MOHAMED | |||
| Joint Energy and Environment Projects (JEEP): wood | |||
| energy conservation by participatory activities 172 | |||
| RUTH KIWANUKA | |||
| Traditional Water Management and Irrigation Systems in | |||
| Tanzania 174 | |||
| 0. MASCARENHAS | |||
| Rehabilitation and Construction of Earth Dams in Swaziland 177 | |||
| F. MDLULI | |||
| LAND HUSBANDRY CASE STUDIES | |||
| Introduction | |||
| N.W. HUDSON | |||
| A Programme for Farm Improvement with Soil | |||
| Conservation in Lesotho (FISC) 183 | |||
| GEDION SHONE | |||
| Mobilizing Farmers to Counter Desertification in Nyanza | |||
| District, Kenya 190 | |||
| SR DOLORES RAUCH | |||
| Farmer Adoption of Improved Water Management on | |||
| Vertisols in Semi-arid South-east Zimbabwe 197 | |||
| P. NYAMUDEZA, E. MAZHANGARA, T. BUSANGAVANYE, and E. JONES | |||
| An Agroforestry Extension Project in Mazabuka District, | |||
| Zambia- 203 | |||
| YEMBO KAONGA and ELIZABETH MALAYISHA | |||
| A Study of the Effects of Land Use on Water and Soil | |||
| Resources on the Slopes of Mount Kenya 208 | |||
| HANSPETER LINIGER | |||
| Developing Sustainable Grazing Associations in Lesotho | |||
| J . P . HUNTER and L.C. WEAVER | |||
| CONCLUSIONS | |||
| Next Steps Towards Better Land Husbandry | |||
| R.J. CHEATLE | |||
| Improved Training Approaches for Sustaim-Lam!. ð-- | |||
| Husbandry | |||
| K.H.M. SEGERROS and R.J. CHEATLE | |||
| APPENDIX | |||
| The Workshop Background | |||
| Opening Address in Tanzania | |||
| DR B. MOSHl | |||
| Opening Address in Kenya | |||
| MR J.T. ARAP LETING | |||
| Closing Speech in Kenya | |||
| MR C.R.J. NYAGA | |||
| The Role and Contribution of Rural Sociologists to Sustainable Soil | |||
| and Water Management | |||
| The Role of Economics in the Sustainability of | |||
| Smallholder Systems | |||
| J.P. HUNTER and N. REYNOLDS | |||
| Participatory Approaches to Soil and Water Conservation for | |||
| Sustainable Smallholder Development | |||
| References | |||
| Further Reading | |||
| Participants and Authors | |||
| Abbreviations Used in the Text | |||
| Index of Place Names | |||
| Subject Index |
Francis Gichuki Dr. Gichuki is a member of the Kenya Society of Agricultural Engineering (KSAE). He has had research and consultancy experience in soil and water management, irrigation and drainage, water resources management, environmental engineering, community water supply, design of farm implement mechanization, soil dynamics and tillage, and forestry engineering machine design.
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