Alley cropping was developed by IITA as a technology to solve soil fertility, erosion and low crop yield. Although crops overwhelmingly dominate the farming system in humid west Africa, livestock, particularly small ruminants, are an integral component of the system accounting for 10-20 percent o...
Lawry, S.
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Stienbarger, D.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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[Land tenure and the potential for the adoption of alley farming in West Africa]
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Land tenure and the potential for the adoption of alley farming in West Africa
The incorporation of livestock into alley farming systems, in which food or forage crops are grown between hedges of multipurpose trees that are regularly pruned for mulch and/or forage, has been studied for over 10 years in Africa. Prunings from leguminous trees such as Leucaena and gliricidia c...
IITA developed alley cropping (also called hedgerow intercropping by ICRAF) in the mid 1970s to alleviate the problems of reduced soil fertility, reduced yields and soil erosion that were associated with population growth and reduced fallow periods. In the early 1980s this technology was adapted ...
Jabbar, M.A.
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[ILCA/LTC research on property rights and alley farming in West Africa]
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ILCA/LTC research on property rights and alley farming in West Africa
The profitabilities of three land use systems in the humid zone of southwest Nigeria are compared using a capital budgeting procedure combining on-station and on-farm experimental data. The systems are: non-alley farming with fallow; alley farming with fallow; and continous alley farming. The res...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Larbi, Asamoah
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Reynolds, L.
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[Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria]
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Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria