Promoting sustainable intensification and productivity growth in Sahel agriculture after macroeconomic policy reform

Reardon, Thomas; Kelly, Valerie A.; Crawford, Eric W.; Diagana, Bocar; Dioné, Josué; Savadogo, Kimseyinga; Boughton, Duncan

doi:10.1016/s0306-9192(97)00022-5

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“…The term's origin dates back to the 1990s, when it was developed in an exclusively African context 1 . It became prominent as a scientifically-meaningful objective for global agricultural policies and development only in the late 2000s (Fig.…”

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“…As a result peanut farmers did forego the purchase of chemical amendments (Speirs & Olson, 1992) and adopted inappropriate production techniques, like sowing at higher densities, to compensate for production losses of individual plants (Kelly et al, 1996). Yet, these short-run payoff strategies (Reardon et al, 1997) only caused a further depletion of the soil resources, trapping farmers into a vicious circle (Reardon et al, 1998).…”

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Comparing Rainfall Use Efficiency Trends with Expert Judgments for Nation-Wide Land Degradation Assessments: The Case of Senegal

Sonneveld¹,

Bai²,

Ndiaye³

et al. 2012

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This study compares the results of two nationwide land degradation assessments for Senegal. The first approach is based on expert judgments, the second on trend analyses of Rainfall Use Efficiency (RUE). The comparison yields some interpretable results for extreme negative RUE slope values with maximum degrees of land degradation as indicated by experts, yet, overall, the correlation between both approaches proves to be low and without clear sign. As RUE trend analysis suffers from several inherent methodological problems and expert judgments are found to be consistent we consider expert opinions as the preferable option for a nation-wide land degradation assessment in Senegal. Yet, we argue that methodological improvements would increase the explanatory power of the expert approach and consolidate its position in a policy making framework.

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“…One of the side effects of the rehabilitation of degraded land with SWC has been the expansion of cultivated areas, and the creation of a market for barren land in the late 1990s (Reij & Steeds, 2003). Structural adjustment and the resulting dramatic reduction of government spending on agricultural extension services and fertilizer programs during the this period might also have contributed to field expansions (Reardon et al, 1997).…”

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Embedded Discourses: Nigerien Academic Contributions to Land Use Change Research Since the 1960s

D’haen¹,

Moussa²,

Reenberg³

2013

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On the basis of a systematic screening of research papers, this study explores the land use and land cover change research priorities of scholars from Niger since independence. It investigates how key interests have evolved over time with regard to what issues are considered important as well as the researchers' assessments of changes in the Sahel and their driving forces. In doing so a) it identifies the dominant characterization of land changes and their implication, and b) it explores the possible change over time with regard to focus of interest in the national science community. The available pool of scientific publications is screened by use of a meta-study approach, followed by a hierarchical cluster analysis of identified key variables, to synthesize existing knowledge. The meta-study reveals that no land research was communicated through scholarly papers before the early 1990s. Since 1994, the Nigerien academic research on land change has documented a diverse range of changes (e.g. expansion, intensification, conservation, tenure); yet the material cannot support general conclusions about dominant trajectories of change. Different human-environmental discourses have influenced the research questions in different regions and time periods, with implications for the problems addressed in specific case studies. It is concluded that the collective insight into land change processes reveals land system complexities rather than generic trends.

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Promoting sustainable intensification and productivity growth in Sahel agriculture after macroeconomic policy reform

Cited by 63 publications

References 4 publications

How scalable is sustainable intensification?

How scalable is sustainable intensification?

Comparing Rainfall Use Efficiency Trends with Expert Judgments for Nation-Wide Land Degradation Assessments: The Case of Senegal

Embedded Discourses: Nigerien Academic Contributions to Land Use Change Research Since the 1960s

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