Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Prospects for Semi-Arid West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMatlon, P. J.en
dc.contributor.authorAkinwumi, J. A.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:27Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:27Zen
dc.date.issued1997en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe food-crop sector in the West African semi-arid tropics (WASAT) faces a triple challenge: (1) the lack of technical change has led to zero or , in some areas, negative growth in productivity; (2) deepening poverty has forced farmers to employ short-term survival strategies to meet their immediate needs for food and income, but these strategies mine the resource base and thereby reduce future production potential; and (3) the application of many yield-increasing technologies may itself contribute to environmental degradation. In this chapter we consider some of the factors underlying this situation and suggest how research and development efforts might shift to achieve sustainable production growth over the twenty-first century.en
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dc.identifier786en
dc.identifier.isbn0-8018-5607-8en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66202en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.ispartofVosti, S. A., T. Reardon, eds. 1997. Sustainability, Growth and Poverty Alleviation: A Policy and Agroecological Perspective. London, England; Baltimore, Md.: The John Hopkins University Press (for IFPRI)en
dc.subjectWest Africaen
dc.subjectDevelopment policyen
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectResource managementen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectAgricultural developmenten
dc.subjectEnvironmental degradationen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governanceen
dc.titleAgricultural Growth and Sustainability: Prospects for Semi-Arid West Africaen
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