Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture

An integrated systems research approach
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-66808-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is moved from farming systems to livelihoods systems and institutional innovation.

Much of the work represents outputs of the three CGIAR Research Programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Dryland Systems. The chapters are based around four themes: the conceptual underpinnings of systems research; sustainable intensification in practice; integrating nutrition, gender and equity in research for improved livelihoods; and systems and institutional innovation.

While most of the case studies are from countries and agro-ecological zones in Africa, there are also some from Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanlauwe, Bernard

Phillips, Michael

Thomas, Richard

Brooijmans, Willemien

Atta-Krah, Kwesi

Oborn, Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Conceptual Underpinnings

1. From Farming Systems to Livelihood Systems Research: Past, Present, and Future

2. Systems Science at the Scale of Impact: Reconciling Bottom up Participation with the Production of Widely Applicable Research Outputs

3. Systems Thinking toward Institutional Innovation and Change

4. Does Sustainable Intensification offer a Pathway to Improved Food Security and Wellbeing for Aquatic Agricultural System-dependent Communities?

5. What Works Where for Which Farm Household: Estimated Effects of Different Interventions on Food Availability across Household Distributions in East and West Africa

6. Foresight and System Thinking for Institutional Innovation and Change

7. Shaping Futures of Aquatic Agricultural Food Systems: Engaging and Empowering Local Stakeholders through Foresight

Part 2: Sustainable Intensification in Practice

8. System Productivity and Natural Resource Integrity in Smallholder Farming: Friends or Foes?

9. The Impact of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development on Collective Marketing and income in Southern Africa

10. Exploring Options for Sustainable Intensification in Different Farming System Types in Eastern Zambia

11. Assessing Smallholder Farmers’ Knowledge and Perception on Vegetable Pests and Diseases and their Management Practices within Cocoa-based Farming Systems in the Humid Tropics of Cameroon

12. A Comparative Study of Four Villages in Western Kenya Demonstrating the Challenges and Opportunities for Enhancing Agricultural Productivity at the Local Scale

13. Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture in Northwest Vietnam: Exploring the Potential of Vegetable Integration

Part 3: Integrating Nutrition, Gender and Equity in Research for Improved Livelihoods

14. Systemic Nutrition Security Solutions for Transformative Change

15. Overview of Nutrition Sensitive Landscapes: Approach and Methods' used to Assess Local Food Availability and Diversification of Diets

16. Systems Analysis in Nutrition Sensitive Landscapes

17. Gender in Integrated Systems Research

18. Gender Norms and Agricultural Innovation; Insights from Uganda

19. Gender Integration in Agricultural Systems: A Holistic Approach to Empowerment and Transformation

Part 4: Systems and Institutional Innovation

20. What kinds of ‘Systems’ are we Dealing with? Implications for Systems Research and Scaling

21. Impacts of the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) on the Adoption of Natural Resources Management (NRM), Crop and Post-harvest Technologies: Evidence from the Innovation Platforms approach in West Africa

22. Documentation and Learning of Multi-stakeholder Processes in Agricultural Research for Development

23. Institutional Constraints and Opportunities in Implementing Integrated Agricultural Research for Development: the Humidtropics Case

24. Engaging Local Stakeholder in More Inclusive Innovation Processes: Lessons from an Assessment of Innovation Experiences in African Smallholder Agriculture

25. From Farm to Landscape and Further: Approaches to Scaling Integrated Systems Research

Über Autor(innen)

Ingrid Öborn is Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia at ICRAF, The World Agroforestry Centre, Bogor, Indonesia, and Professor of Agricultural Cropping Systems at the Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.

Bernard Vanlauwe is R4D Director for the Central Africa hub and the Natural Resource Management Research Area of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya.

Michael Phillips is Director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Program at WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia.

Richard Thomas is Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Drylands Systems at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan.

Willemien Brooijmans is a rural development sociologist and a consultant at Humidtropics, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.

Kwesi Atta-Krah is Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.