Evaluates alley farming models with small ruminants based on field and experimental data from southwest Nigeria, and compares them to basic alley cropping and to fallow systems. Describes the basic fallow model, the basic alley cropping model without animals, the alley farming model with goats, a...
Sumberg, J.E.
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McIntire, John M.
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Okali, C.
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Atta-Krah, A.N.
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[Analyse economique de la culture en couloirs a composante fourragere]
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Analyse economique de la culture en couloirs a composante fourragere
Describes possible methods of allocating research resources based on different analytical models. Presents a brief review of models proposed; and some evidence about current agricultural and livestock reserch in sub-Saharan Africa. Also presents emperical tests of which variables might be importa...
McIntire, John M.
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[L'allocation des credits de recherche sur l'elevage en Afrique au sud du Sahara]
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L'allocation des credits de recherche sur l'elevage en Afrique au sud du Sahara
Discusses the historical context of ILCA's research, the principal types of animal production systems and the stages in ILCA's farming systems research. Describes the smallholder farming in the Ethiopian highlands & humid zone, the agropastoralists of the sub-humid zone, systems research in pasto...
Gryseels, Guido
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McIntire, John M.
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Anderson, F.M.
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[La recherche sur les systemes agraires ("RSA") au CIPEA]
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La recherche sur les systemes agraires ("RSA") au CIPEA
Examines fertilizer use in sub-saharan Africa, fertilizer response and economic returns and fertilizer subsidies with government budgetary constraints. Estimates fertilizer import demand.
Examines background to some of the economic analysis done in the African Trypanotolerant Livestock Network; defines some models of animal production; presents results of experiments with the ILCA microcomputer herd model about some important problems in the Network and projects returns to gains o...
McIntire, John M.
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[Introduction to economic analysis in the African Trypanotolerant Livestock Network]
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Introduction to economic analysis in the African Trypanotolerant Livestock Network
Discusses the historical context of ILCA's research, the principal types of animal production systems and the stages in ILCA's farming systems research. Describes the smallholder farming in the Ethiopian highlands & humid zone, the agropastoralists of the sub-humid zone, systems research in pasto...
Gryseels, Guido
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McIntire, John M.
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Anderson, F.M.
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[Research with a farming systems perspective at ILCA]
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Research with a farming systems perspective at ILCA
Describes possible methods of allocating research resources based on different analytical models. Presents a brief review of models proposed; and some evidence about current agricultural and livestock reserch in sub-Saharan Africa. Also presents emperical tests of which variables might be importa...
McIntire, John M.
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[Allocation of livestock research resources in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Allocation of livestock research resources in sub-Saharan Africa
Evaluates alley farming models with small ruminants based on field and experimental data from southwest Nigeria, and compares them to basic alley cropping and to fallow systems. Describes the basic fallow model, the basic alley cropping model without animals, the alley farming model with goats, a...
Sumberg, J.E.
,
McIntire, John M.
,
Okali, C.
,
Atta-Krah, A.N.
,
[Economic analysis of alley farming with small ruminants]
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Economic analysis of alley farming with small ruminants