Living Farms - Encouraging Sustainable Smallholders in Southern Africa

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Whiteside, Martin

Product details

• Authors: Martin Whiteside, Whiteside Martin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138179097
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17909-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Sustainability, NATURE / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Republic of South Africa, Environmental Management, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Sustainable agriculture, Development Studies