Chungu, Chisha
Country of Origin: Zambia- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2008/09/01
- University: University of Zambia
- Degree: MS
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
An agricultural model for biodiversity conservation
This presentation discusses the SANREM CRSP long term research activity (LTRA-2), “An Agricultural Markets Model for Biodiversity Conservation,” in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia. The objectives […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): A.J. Travis
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Annual Report for the Soil Science Group 2007-2008
Conservation Farming (CF) in Zambia (often also called Conservation Agriculture (CA)) involves several key practices: dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage systems using a small basin […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): L. Gatere
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Assessing the impacts of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda: A preliminary analysis of the pilot SANREM/IFRI site
In this paper we seek to assess the implication of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda. We aim to explain the change in […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): J. Bahati; A. Banana; W. Gombya-Ssembajjwe
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
Resource, recourse and decisions: Incentive structures in forest decentralization and governance in East Africa
This paper asks: what is it that gets decentralized in the forestry and natural resources sector? And is decentralization effective in meeting the Goals of equity, […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): A. Banana; P. Ongugo; J. Bahati; E. Mwangi; K. Andersson
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
Help for the hippos of Zambia
Its name means “water horse,” apt for the hippopotamus, which spends most of its life in deep water holes. But in Zambia’s Luangwa River region, drought, […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): D. Estrada
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Property rights and forest management: Whose reality counts?
This policy brief Outlines a brief history of the land tenure system in Kenya from colonization to modern land management practices. Kenya has a mixed system […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): E. Obonyo, J. Mogoi, P. Ongugo
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe: Payments for wildlife services
This paper discusses the development of Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE). Implemented in 1989, it is one of the earliest examples of […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): P.G.H. Frost; I. Bond
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Conservation farming steps for hand-hoe farmers
Conservation Farming (CF) refers to a number of practices that in combination conserve soil, moisture, fertilizer (organic & synthetic), seeds, energy, time and money. The technique: […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): L. Gatere; N. Tembo
- Type of Document: Not Available
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Environmental variables affecting the success of conservation farming in Zambia
This presentation discusses conservation farming methods in Zambia. The research highlights how conservation farming methods may help to negate environmental variables that hinder crop production, such […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): L. Gatere; R. Delve; P. Hobbs; S. DeGloria; J. Lehmann
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
