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Sustaining the Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa (Hardcover)
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Sustaining the Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa (Hardcover)
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Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely
acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects.
Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has
been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local
practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed
and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil,
well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions.
But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned,
by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers'
practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by
farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances.
Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the
humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from
rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the
book explores the various factors that influence adoption and
adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the
institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective
land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this
book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used
successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights
combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies
attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa,
involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which
makes the most of both the new and the old.
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