Living Farms

Living Farms

Encouraging Sustainable Smallholders in Southern Africa

Whiteside, Martin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2017

236

Dura

Inglês

9781138179097

15 a 20 dias

600

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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
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