Machine generated contents note: 1. The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture 1
C.B. Barrett, F. Place, A. Aboud and D.R. Brown
PART I: FARMERS' OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING PROCESSES
2. Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management 23
J. Pretty and L. Buck
3. The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity 35
P.E. Peters
4. Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria 51
A.A. Adesina andJ. Chianu
5. Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa 65
G. Tarawali, B. Douthwaite, N.C. de Haan and S.A. Tarawali
PART II: WILLINGNESS AND CAPACITY TO MAKE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
6. Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia 77
B. Gebremedhin and S.M. Swinton
7. Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity 91
S.T. Holden and B. Shiferaw
8. Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants 103
D.C. Clay, V. Kelly, E. Mpyisi and T. Reardon
9. Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa 115
C.H. Gladwin, J.S. Peterson, D. Phiri and R. Uttaro
PART III: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESOURCE BASE
10. Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129
TI Wyatt
11. Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya 143
H.A. Freeman and R. Coe
12. Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia 155
F. Place, S. Franzel, J. DeWolf, R. Rommelse, F. Kwesiga, A. Niang and
B. Jama
13. Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa 169
P. Kristjanson, I Okike, S.A. Tarawali, R. Kruska, V.M. Manyong and
B.B. Singh
14. Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar 181
M.S. Freudenberger and K.S. Freudenberger
PART IV: THE AGROECOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT
15. Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali 193
V. Kelly, M.L. Sylla, M. Galiba and D. Weight
16. Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices 205
N. Hatibu, E.A. Lazaro, H.F. Mahoo and F.B.R. Rwehumbiza
17. Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa 219
M. Mekuria and S.R. Waddington
18. A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia 235
B.N. Okumu, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman and N. Russell
19. Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems 251
L.R. Ndlovu and P.H. Mugabe
20. Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa 261
B.I. Shapiro andJ.H. Sanders
PART V: TOWARDS IMPROVED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
21. Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research 275
F. Place, B.M. Swallow, J. Wangila and C.B. Barrett
22. Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture 287
C.B. Barrett, J. Lynam, F. Place, T. Reardon and A.A. Aboud.