Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement

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Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement evaluates traditional cultivation practices used by smallholder farmers, providing a synthesis of the contemporary information on increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations. The book catalogs smallholder cultivation practices and recommends innovative strategies for bettering the agriculture sector including: management practices that reduce net carbon emissions; technologies that give a boost to soil structures and conserve the natural resources base; means of empowering female resources along value chains; and government commitment to adopt policies that strengthen agriculture productivity by encouraging farmers to use environmentally sound cultivation technologies.

Traditional farming techniques frequently produce negative impacts on the environment and ecosystem resulting in outbreaks of diseases and pests. Along with the region’s recurrent droughts, these outbreaks of a lot of diseases and pests, weeds and other invasive plants put thousands liable to poverty and hunger, in addition to malnutrition. This book presents enhanced agricultural production technologies for ensuring adequate food production, safety and nutritional quality for the population of Southern Africa and forms the basis for an increased SADC regional effort in food production through which financial and trade institutions can give a boost to stakeholder capacities, encourage micro-enterprise development and strengthen employment and regional trade.

  • Provides a critical synthesis of data and information for increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations
  • Evaluates traditional and scientific interventions that address food security issues of the poor farmers in the region
  • Presents agro-ecologies of countries in the region and how they relate to quite a lot of cultivation practices
  • Catalogs smallholder cultivation practices and recommends innovative strategies for bettering the agriculture sector
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