Conservation agriculture in Africa: an overview.

Mkomwa, Saidi; Kassam, Amir; Friedrich, Theodor; Shula, Reynolds

doi:10.1079/9781780645681.0001

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“…The practice is spreading by an estimated 10 million hectares a year [24] and now covers approximately 11 percent of global arable cropland. CA is far from being a single practice employed over this vast area, instead it is a complementary set of three general principles which are adapted locally to become compatible with the location specific environment.…”

Section: Conservation Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization for Smallholders: What Is It and How Can We Implement It?

Sims¹,

Kienzle²

2017

Agriculture

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Smallholder farmers are the main producers of the world's food and they will have to increase production by up to 100 percent by 2050 to feed the growing population. This must be achieved while preserving natural resources and that is why sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM) will be fundamental to the process. SAM is climate-smart and environmentally benign and essentially means no-till conservation agriculture, which requires specific mechanization inputs. Principally, these are seeders and planters capable of penetrating soil surface vegetative cover to deposit seed and fertilizer at the required depth and spacing; and equipment for management of cover crops and weeds. Mechanization is required not only for crop production, but also for processing and along the entire value chain. Mechanization inputs are usually expensive and so specialist service provision will be the indicated way forward. This will need collaboration from both the private and public sectors and will involve public-private partnerships to be developed in one form or another. Given the poor track record of public sector mechanization provision, the delivery of SAM should be firmly in the hands of the private sector that should be committed to SAM principles or otherwise be incentivized to the concept through smart subsidies. Improved information flows via smallholder farmer-friendly innovation platforms; and continuing development and testing of SAM technologies via regional centres of excellence will both be required-especially for sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Conservation Agriculturementioning

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“…However the general principles will still apply and will be common to the local adaptations in both regions. These general principles are as follows (see, for example, [24]):…”

Section: Conservation Agriculturementioning

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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization for Smallholders: What Is It and How Can We Implement It?

Sims¹,

Kienzle²

2017

Agriculture

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“…In this study, we are using the definition of CA provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “a farming system that promotes a permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance (i.e., no‐tillage), and diversification of plant species that enhances soil quality and promotes soil health (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2019; Mkomwa et al, 2017; Pisante et al, 2015). Such soil improvements induce increased crop yields (Ares et al, 2015) and make CA an economically viable alternative to slash‐and‐burn agriculture in forested areas such as the DRC (Legoupil et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are consumers willing to pay for conservation agriculture? The case of white maize in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mulimbi¹,

Nalley²,

Nayga

et al. 2022

Natural Resources Forum

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Throughout the low‐income world, agricultural producers have a motivation to slash‐and‐burn rainforests as they cannot afford inorganic fertilizers. Farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who are predominantly women, are often forced to walk long distances to cultivate more productive lands, when fertility near their villages is reduced. On their way and while working away from home, women become targets for rape. Adopting conservation agriculture (CA) could help mitigate deforestation and potentially create a safer environment for women. Limited knowledge about the benefits of CA across countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) has hindered its adoption. Taking these impediments into account, we estimate if consumers in the DRC are willing to pay (WTP) a premium for CA, using maize flour as the medium. By means of a double‐bounded dichotomous choice valuation method, 600 consumers in Bukavu, DRC, were surveyed about their willingness‐to‐pay for CA‐produced maize. Our study finds that only those consumers who identify themselves as farmers are WTP a premium. This study indicates that if CA adoption is to spread in the DRC, it will likely need to happen via increased yields or reduced costs before the farm gate and not premiums after the farm gate.

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Understanding the conditions of conservation agriculture adoption in Lango region, Uganda

Kaweesa¹,

Ndah

Schuler

et al. 2020

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Conservation agriculture in Africa: an overview.

Cited by 3 publications

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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization for Smallholders: What Is It and How Can We Implement It?

Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization for Smallholders: What Is It and How Can We Implement It?

Are consumers willing to pay for conservation agriculture? The case of white maize in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Understanding the conditions of conservation agriculture adoption in Lango region, Uganda

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