Low-input agricultural technologies for Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Frackson Lameck Mkandawire, Mmaduabuchukwu Mkpada (eds.).
Series: Support Africa International studies in sub-Saharan Africa -- 4; Studies in sub-Saharan Africa -- v. 4.
Publisher: Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9783631606353
Subjects: Technology transfer; Sustainable agriculture; Organic farming; Agriculture
Description: "The authors discuss low-input agricultural strategies known and practised by many subsistence and smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, which are efficient and intensify food production. Their proposed technologies are suitable options useable in response to concerns about the environmental impact made by using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Therefore, new agricultural technologies should be used in order to avoid land degradation but rather improve soil through appropriate conservation practices. With the help of these new low-input strategies, the exploitation of land leading to massive destruction, and as such to rural poverty, can be avoided. Field tests have shown that the low-input agricultural strategies are economically affordable to poor farmers and easy to implement."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.