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Farmers' taxonomies as a participatory diagnostic tool: soil fertility management in Chihota, Zimbabwe
Autor: | Bellon, M.R. |
Autor: | Gambara, P. |
Autor: | Gatsi, T. |
Autor: | Machemedze, T.E. |
Autor: | Maminimini, O. |
Autor: | Waddington, S.R. |
Año: | 1999 |
ISSN: | 0258-8587 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10883/997 |
Resumen: | Soil infertility is a major constraint to food production in the communal areas of Zimbabwe. Smalholders in the region recognize the problems of low soil fertility and have devised ways of coping with them. This study describes the use of farmers' taxonomies of themselves and their soils to identify and understand the options they have, and the constraints they face in management poor soil fertility in Chihota, a sub-humid communal area of north central Zimbabwe. It is part of an effort by a group of agricultural researchers and extensionists working improved soil fertility technologies, to better integrate their work with farmers in order to expose the latter to promising technologies, get feedback on the technologies merits and feasibility, and help farmers experiment with them. The results show that this farmers have relatively sophisticated taxonomies, which provide a good picture of the resources, constraints, and concerns they have about soil infertility and ways to manage it. The taxonomies are an important framework for integration of technical interventions with farmers' requirements, systems, and circumstances. |
Formato: | |
Lenguaje: | English |
Editor: | CIMMYT |
Nombre de la Serie: | CIMMYT Economics Working Paper |
Copyright: | CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. |
Tipo: | Book |
País de enfoque: | Zimbabwe |
Región: | Southern Africa |
Lugar de publicación: | Mexico |
Páginas: | 18 pages |
Serie Número: | 99-13 |
Agrovoc: | FOOD PRODUCTION |
Agrovoc: | INNOVATION ADOPTION |
Agrovoc: | ON-FARM RESEARCH |
Agrovoc: | RESEARCH PROJECTS |
Agrovoc: | SMALL FARMS |
Agrovoc: | SOIL MANAGEMENT |
Agrovoc: | FOOD PRODUCTION |
Agrovoc: | INNOVATION ADOPTION |
Agrovoc: | ON-FARM RESEARCH |
Agrovoc: | RESEARCH PROJECTS |
Agrovoc: | SMALL FARMS |
Agrovoc: | SOIL MANAGEMENT |
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