Tailoring Conservation Agriculture to Local Contexts and Conditions of Smallholder Farmers in Africa

Abstract

This presentation provides an overview of the need for and challenges to adapting Conservation Agriculture practices to local conditions and social context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Major constraints addressed are start-up costs coupled with longer term yield increases, poor access to markets, and the need for capacity building prior to implementation.

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Keywords
Social impacts, Conservation agriculture, Semiarid zones, Tenure system, Social capital, Environmental impacts, Institutional capacity building, Conservation tillage, Adoption of innovations, Sub-Saharan Africa, Local context, CA adoption, Labor divisions, Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Watershed
Citation
Presented at the XI European Society for Agronomy Congress, Montpellier, France, 29 August - 3 September 2010