Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability

Raymond Auerbach (Editor), Gunnar Rundgren (Editor), and Nadia El-Hage Scialabba (Editor)

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This publication, Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability, demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts. This publication expands on selected research presented during the Lusaka Conference.

The different chapters document sustainability experiences, including:
  • mainstreaming organic agriculture into African development approaches; community-based livestock systems combining holistic range management
  • indigenous ethno-veterinary practices and new understanding of customary systems of resource management
  • ecofunctional intensification through management of legumes, systems of rice intensification and integrated farming
  • smallholders' knowledge harnessed through family farmers learning groups and customised information and communication technologies.
  • ISBN13 9789251076668
  • Publish Date 30 August 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 April 2021
  • Publish Country IT
  • Imprint Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 106
  • Language English