|
|
|  | | Edinam Glover 2010. Approaches to Halt & Reverse Land Degradation in Kenya
Glover, E. K. 2010. Approaches to Halt and Reverse Land Degradation in Kenya.
This book is an interesting, thoroughly researched, and well-written case study using a multidisciplinary approach, involving both biophysical and social sciences, in addition to integrated views of researchers, policy-makers and farmers. It covers an important research topic, given the high and increasingly wide-spread malnutrition and famine, degradation of eco-systems, with recession of forests and pastures, and wind erosion of vast quantities of soil in the drylands. Overall, the book provides valuable new information of the lives of rural people in general; the success of local people's p | |  | | Edinam Glover, 2010. Agrobiodiversity and Food Security: Southern Sudan
Edinam K. Glover & Yomo M. Lawrence, 2010. Agroforestry Practices among Smallholder Farmers of Southern Sudan: Sustainable Land-Use,Agrobiodiversity and Food Security.
(ISBN 978-3-639-30539-5).
...This book provides a thorough understanding of the smallholder farmers from the socio-economic and ecological perspectives and how this can provide new policy insights leading to an environmentally sustainable, economically profitable and socially equitable future for its people and systems.It is believed that the book may be of immense value and interest to agriculturists, foresters, environmentalists, extension agents, consultants, policy-makers and planners involved in sustainable natural resources management and biodiversity conservation in the tropics.
| |  | | Edinam Glover, 2010. Rehabilitation of Fragile Degraded Forest lands
This book considers how trees,people and agriculture can be combined in sustainably managed farms, forests and landscapes.
This book discusses the impact of resource deprivation on forest resources, the potential to achieve sustainable management through greater participation. It also explains the potential for farm forestry to improve livelihoods. | |  | | Mawutor Glover & Edinam Glover 2011. Lettuce & Cabbage Marketing in Ghana
Mawutor K. Glover & Edinam Glover, Empirical study of lettuce and cabbage marketing in Ghana: Trade, channels and distribution
This book examines the distribution pathway of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) produced in Accra, Ghana from the primary stages of production to the final stages of distribution in the retail sector and to the final consumer. The book covers gaps in the existing marketing channels of lettuce and cabbage trade, proposes how the associated constraints could be solved to better protect the chain, and explores the application of the findings in other contexts. It presupposes a thorough understanding of the social, cultural, ecological and economic factors sha | |  | | Partnership between public and private actors in forest -sector development
Partnership between public and private actors in forest -sector development.Options for dryland Africa based on experiences from Sudan with case studies on Laos, Nepal, Vietnam, Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania.
This book, in its first part specifically relating to Sudan, attempts to contribute to under-standing the ways of forming partnerships in forest management between the state and local resource managers. Specifically, it presents experiences gained from implementing such partnerships in Sudan, also identifying conditions and hindrances for them that affect local livelihoods and sustainable forest management. The partnerships in forest management between public and private actors are in this study defined as different ways of sharing for-est management powers and associated costs and benefits be |
|
|
|
