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By Jules N. Pretty,Stella Williams,Camilla Toulmin

endured inhabitants development, speedily altering intake styles and the affects of weather swap and environmental degradation are riding constrained assets of nutrients, power, water and fabrics in the direction of serious thresholds world wide. those pressures usually are titanic throughout Africa, the place nations must locate cutting edge how one can increase crop and cattle construction to prevent changing into extra reliant on imports and nutrition relief. Sustainable agricultural intensification - generating extra output from an identical sector of land whereas lowering the adverse environmental affects - represents an answer for hundreds of thousands of African farmers.

This quantity provides the teachings realized from forty sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 international locations throughout Africa, commissioned as a part of the united kingdom Government's Foresight venture. via distinctive case stories, the authors of every bankruptcy learn the best way to strengthen efficient and sustainable agricultural structures and the way to scale up those structures to arrive many extra hundreds of thousands of individuals sooner or later. topics coated contain crop advancements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, built-in pest administration, horticulture, cattle and fodder vegetation, aquaculture, and novel guidelines and partnerships.

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