Land husbandry: an agro-ecological approach to land use and management Part 2: Consideration of soil conditions

Shaxson, T. F.; Williams, August; Kassam, Amir

doi:10.1016/s2095-6339(15)30059-9

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“…In Wundanyi farmers limited themselves to either a combination of manure and inorganic fertilizer or manure alone (Table 3). Manure helps in improving soil structure, especially soil porosity, which promotes root development and water infiltration [38]. Other studies show that farmers use integrated soil fertility management strategies like organic manure and intercropping to mitigate declining soil fertility and related issues [39].…”

Section: Declining Soil Fertilitymentioning

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Gender Differentiated Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers in Kenyan Agricultural Highland Catchments

Mcharo¹,

Waswa²

2022

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Soil and water conservation practices or measures are critical in sustaining land productivity for food production while maintaining the integrity of the land. Cardinal measures in this context are broadly categorised as structural, agronomic, and vegetative. Their ultimate goal is to prevent soil erosion, keep the soil fertile, and conserve soil moisture for guaranteed land productivity. This study assessed the relationship between soil biophysical characteristics and farmer socio-ecocomic characteristics on the one hand, and adoption of soil and water conservation practices that have been promoted in the highland catchments of Kinale-Kikuyu, Cherangani, and Wundanyi. A total of 253 households from Kinale-Kikuyu, 96 from Cherangani, and 40 from Wundanyi catchments were selected to form the survey sample. Our results show that among male farmers, the most preferred practices were structural (35.9%), while vegetative practices (29%) were most popular among female land users. At P = 0.3141, our findings indicate that there is no significant relationship between gender and method of soil and water conservation adopted. In Kinale-Kikuyu 31.3% of the farmers adopted vegetative methods, 42.7% of Cherangani farmers used structural methods, and 60.1% of Wundanyi farmers preferred structural methods. These results demonstrated a significant relationship between the catchment location and the method adopted (P = 0.0002). This study confirms the successes and benefits of soil and water conservation practices in all three catchments. Significant differences among catchments in the soil and water conservation practices suggest a stronger correlation between adoption and location compared to adoption and gender.

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Section: Declining Soil Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Differentiated Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers in Kenyan Agricultural Highland Catchments

Mcharo¹,

Waswa²

2022

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“…Its principal activities involve the provision of training and extension support of what has been widely considered throughout the region as an innovative 'deep-bed farming' (DBF) system. The DBF system was developed by a small team of practitioners based in Mzuzu, and was directly inspired by Francis Shaxson's work on soil compaction, erosion and agroecological approaches to land husbandry (Shaxson et al 1997;Shaxson et al 2014), which itself draws on the long-recognised problem of soil compaction throughout southern Africa (Trapnell and Clothier, 1937;Trapnell, 1943;Douglas et al 1999). Since 2005, when the first DBF demonstration garden was established, the method has been adopted by over 15,000 farmers throughout Malawi.…”

Section: The Deep-bed Farming Systemmentioning

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Farmer experiences of Tiyeni’s ‘deep-bed farming’ conservation agriculture system in Malawi

Mvula

Dixon

2020

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Agricultural Land Degradation: Processes and Problems Undermining Future Food Security

Hossain

Krupnik

Timsina

et al. 2020

Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth

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Land husbandry: an agro-ecological approach to land use and management Part 2: Consideration of soil conditions

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Gender Differentiated Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers in Kenyan Agricultural Highland Catchments

Gender Differentiated Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers in Kenyan Agricultural Highland Catchments

Farmer experiences of Tiyeni’s ‘deep-bed farming’ conservation agriculture system in Malawi

Agricultural Land Degradation: Processes and Problems Undermining Future Food Security

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