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Looking after our land : soil and water conservation in dryland Africa
Critchley, WillOxford, UK : Oxfam, 1991.Soil and water conservation projects have had a troubled record over the past 50 years. This book is about the main lessons to be learnt from new approaches to conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. Six case studies are covered, two each from Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mali.
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More people, more trees : environmental recovery in Africa = Plus de gens, plus d'arbres : réhabilitation de l'environnement en Afrique
Critchley, WillWarwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub., c2010."Over 20 years ago, concerned development agencies began working with farmers' groups in Burkina Faso and Kenya using a new, participatory approach - promoting simple, appropriate measures. In the early 1990s, two videos, 'Looking after our Land' and 'Building on Traditions' recorded these new approaches. More People, More Trees goes back to the same communities, and same development workers in these two countries, and documents what has altered 20 years later. The film shows spectacular changes: most obviously more trees planted and protected by the people themselves, aided and encouraged by continuing community participation in agricultural change in these two sub-Saharan African countries. The ... book expounds upon the powerful messages in the film and describes the technologies employed by the communities, provides hard data to support their testimonies, and looks at the current challenges of sustainable land management in the context of climate change. The film, in English and French, is aimed at a broad audience including farmers. The book and film package will also inform development policy makers, agricultural extension workers, NGO workers, students and the wider development community about a notable achievement in participatory agricultural development"--Container.
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Water harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by highly variable rainfall, frequent drought and low water productivity. There is an urgent need, heightened by climate change, for appropriate technologies to address this problem through managing and increasing the quantity of water on farmers' fields - water harvesting. This book defines water harvesting as a set of approaches which occupy an intermediate position along the water-management spectrum extending from in situ moisture conservation to irrigated agriculture. They generally comprise small-scale systems that induce, collect, store and make use of local surface runoff for agriculture. The authors review development experience and set out the state of the art of water harvesting for crop production and other benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes an assessment of water harvesting schemes that were initiated two or three decades ago when interest was stimulated by the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. These provide lessons to promote sustainable development of dryland agriculture in the face of changing environmental conditions. Case studies from eight countries across Sub-Saharan Africa provide the evidence base. Each follows a similar format and is based on assessments conducted in collaboration with in-country partners, with a focus on attempts to promote adoption of water harvesting, both horizontally (spread) and vertically (institutionalization). Introductory cross-cutting chapters as well as an analytical conclusion are also included.
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