Conflict, social capital and managing natural resources : a West African case study /

• Corporate Author: SANREM.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Land tenure > Environmental aspects > Africa, West.; Soil conservation > Africa, West.; Infrastructure (Economics) > Africa, West.; Sustainable development > Africa, West.; Grazing > Environmental aspects > Africa, West.; Conflict management > Africa, West.; Sustainable agriculture > Africa, West.; Natural resources > Management. > Africa, West; Extension and Advisory Work.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Aid, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Natural Resources (General); Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Conflict, (New March 2000); Rural Sociology, (New March 2000); Agricultural development.; Agricultural production.; Arid zones.; Conflict.; Intensification.; Natural resources.; Package programmes.; Participation.; Resource management.; Semiarid zones.; Sustainability.; Technology.; Technology transfer.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP) in West Africa, detailing its approach, components and outcomes. It describes the transition of the conflict-ridden agricultural and pastoral systems of arid and semi...

Table of Contents:

• Conflict and agropastoral development in the Sahel / Keith M. Moore, Michael Bertelsen, Salmana Cissé and Amadou Kodio
• The lifescape : production systems and social institutions / Salmana Cissé, Keith M. Moore, and Charlene Brewster
• Landscape and soil characteristics of Madiama Commune / Oumarou Badini and Lassana Dioni
• Investigation into the movements of cattle, sheep, and goat herds through the Commune of Madiama / Adama Ballo and Abdoul Karim Ouattara
• Land use changes in Madiama Commune / Randolph H. Wynne, Mohamed Sidi Mohamed Touré, Nina Sengupta and Adama Ballo
• Participatory landscape, lifescape appraisal / Julia Earl and Amadou Kodio
• Building social infrastructure for sustainable development / Keith M. Moore, Salmana Cissé, and Abdoulaye Touré
• Conflict management training / Jeff Goebel, Catherine Ampagoomian, and Abdoulaye Touré
• Holistic management applied to SANREM research and development in Madiama / Sam Bingham
• Farmers' knowledge and perceptions of soil fertility / Todd Crane and Boureima Traoré
• Biophysical assessment of alternative soil fertility technologies through modeling / Oumarou Badini, Boureima Traoré, and Mohamed Sidi Mohamed Touré
• An economic evaluation of alternative soil management technologies / Peter Wyeth, Boureima Traoré, Oumarou Badini, Mohamed Sidi Mohamed Touré and Charlene Brewster
• Economic linkages among occupational groups in the Madiama Commune / Charlene Brewster, Daniel Kaboré, Michael Bertelsen and Peter Wyeth
• Dry season feed supplements : the potential role of Cassia tora / Meriem El Hadj, Ozzie Abaye, Amadou Kodio and Moussa Keïta
• Controlled grazing : botanical response and animal performance / Ozzie Abaye, Meriem El Hadj, Amadou Kodio and Moussa Keïta
• Social capital and improved NRM / Keith M. Moore and Salmana Cissé
• What we have learned / Keith M. Moore, Charlene Brewster, and Michael Bertelsen.