Participative farmer testing of four low external input technologies, to address soil fertility decline in Mono Province( Benin)

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationDirectorate of Agronomic Research, Béninen
cg.coverage.countryBenin
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BJ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/0308-521x(93)90058-aen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0308-521Xen
cg.issue2en
cg.journalAgricultural Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaPOST-HARVESTING TECHNOLOGYen
cg.subject.iitaSMALLHOLDER FARMERSen
cg.subject.iitaGRAIN LEGUMESen
cg.subject.iitaSOIL FERTILITYen
cg.volume42en
dc.contributor.authorVersteeg, M.en
dc.contributor.authorKoudokpon, V.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-14T07:37:39Zen
dc.date.available2018-09-14T07:37:39Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/97353
dc.titleParticipative farmer testing of four low external input technologies, to address soil fertility decline in Mono Province( Benin)en
dcterms.abstractFarmer participation in experimenting with technologies in Mono province (Benin) increased when attention was focused on their major problems. One such problem is soil degradation caused by over-exploitation of land. Four different low external input technologies, all with leguminous components and half of them based on agroforestry, have been tested since 1990 by sub-groups of farmers, who all belong to a discussion group focussing on this problem. The technologies are: (i) a short season fallow of Mucuna pruriens var. utilis; (ii) an improved perennial tree fallow of Acacia auriculiformis; (iii) a short season fallow of pigeonpea; and (iv) an alley-cropping system on the basis of alternating hedgerows of Gliricidia sepium and Leucaena leucocephala. The first two technologies were aimed at the regeneration of very degraded plots, while the latter two technologies concentrate on stabilising still moderately fertile land. Some impressions and results are discussed.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVersteeg, M. & Koudokpon, V. (1993). Participative farmer testing of four low external input technologies, to address soil fertility decline in Mono Province( Benin). Agricultural Systems, 42(2), 265-276.en
dcterms.extentp. 265-276en
dcterms.issued1993-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectsoil fertilityen
dcterms.subjectlegumesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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