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Managing dryland resources

A manual for Eastern and Southern Africa


This manual provides extension workers, non-government organizations and trainers with practical guidelines on developing one of the world's most difficult areas: the drylands of eastern and southern Africa. The book describes both physical technologies (such as how to set up a drip-irrigation scheme) and human and social interventions (such as marketing groups and land tenure improvements). The book was compiled through a participatory writeshop involving 30 specialists from eastern and southern Africa.


Contents

Dryland characteristics

  • What are drylands?

  • Crop production systems

  • Pastoral production systems

Policies

  • Government policies

  • Managing the drought cycle

  • Environmental management

  • Roles of women and men

  • Managing conflicts

Crops

  • Crop selection

  • Controlling field pests

  • Growing trees

  • Drying surplus food

  • Marketing horticultural crops

Soils and water

  • Soil and water conservation

  • Pit composting

  • The old man who transformed a gully

  • Irrigation

  • Drip irrigation

  • Rainwater harvesting

  • Water from sand rivers

Livestock

  • Rangeland management

  • Feeding and care of livestock

  • Livestock marketing

  • Restocking livestock

Communities and organizations

  • Community organizing

  • Participatory extension

  • Land-use planning and titling

  • Savings and credit

  • Economic diversification

  • Participatory research

  • Wildlife management

Appendices

  • Participants’ profiles

  • Resource organizations

  • Reference and training materials


Published 2001 by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Nairobi, Kenya

Available from IIRR Africa

Role of Paul Mundy: Writeshop manager, editing, final desktop publishing

 
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Revised: 21 November 2007

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