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and handling herbicides should be disseminated to farmers to avoid wasteand negative effects.• The government has a major role in improving agriculture in the districtby helping villages form and enforce bylaws to maintain a sustainableenvironment.• Most extension staff need to be brought up to date with conservationagriculture technology and spread it. Best practices learned from projectscan be used in promoting, guiding and sustaining initiatives for farmers.• Total, not partial, involvement of farmers in developing technology shouldbe participatory. Past approaches in an area should be evaluated beforeintroducing new practices.• Many poor farmers use draught-animal power. Integrating cropping withanimal production is essential for sustainable rural livelihoods and enhancingconservation agriculture, especially maintaining soil cover. Animals producemanure, adding value to the land, and eat crops and crop by-products.• Conservation agriculture should be integrated with previous practices, suchas soil and water conservation and agroforestry. The highlands of Sakilaneed contours and Ngorbob and Likamba villages need to reclaim land tosustain food security and livelihoods.• Conservation agriculture institutions should spread the technology to newareas in the district to avoid localizing information and efforts. This willalso contribute towards having widely available literature and reports aboutconservation agriculture in the district.ReferencesBishop-Sambrook C, Kienzle J, Mariki W, Owenya M, Ribeiro F. 2004. Conservation agricultureas a labour-saving practice for vulnerable households: a study of the suitability of reduced tillage and covercrops for households under labour stress in Babati and Karatu Districts, Northern Tanzania. Rome:IFAD and FAO.[CASARD] Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development.2004. End of year report, January–December.[CASARD] Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development.2005. Six months report, June–December.[CASARD] Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development.2006. Six months report, January–June.[CIMMYT] International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. 2005. Annual evaluationand planning workshop Tanzania.Elijah KB, Johan R, George EO. 2000. Conservation tillage for dry farming: technological options andexperiences in eastern and southern Africa. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit, SwedishInternational Development Cooperation Agency.[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2002. Conservationagriculture: case studies in Latin America and Africa. FAO Soils Bulletin 78. Rome: FAO.Jonnson L-O, Mawenya E, Rockstrom J. 2003. Conservation tillage: management practicesfor animal-drawn systems in Tanzania. Working Paper No. 16. Nairobi: Regional LandManagement Unit, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.40 Maguzu et al.
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ContentsPreface ...................
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Full conservation agriculture, howe
Page 13 and 14: February 2005, which made possible
Page 16 and 17: Table B. Key characteristics of cas
Page 18: Overemphasis on field-scale, techni
Page 26 and 27: Arumeru DistrictCatherine W. Maguzu
Page 28 and 29: 8 Gaps and challenges .............
Page 30 and 31: Executive summaryA case study of co
Page 32 and 33: It has shown increase in yields, re
Page 34 and 35: The case study teamThe local team w
Page 36 and 37: NgorongoroKageraMaraMonduliArumeruM
Page 38 and 39: MarketsThe urban centres are Kikati
Page 40 and 41: middle-aged, who migrate to towns t
Page 42 and 43: 4 Conservation agriculture historyI
Page 44 and 45: maize, pigeon pea, and lablab seeds
Page 46 and 47: herbicide was completely abandoned
Page 48 and 49: Most of the implements, except the
Page 50 and 51: 6 Adapting and diffusing conservati
Page 52 and 53: villages with eight farmers (Mwalle
Page 54 and 55: ecognition and enforcement of the b
Page 56 and 57: Table 3. Labour for conservation ag
Page 58 and 59: Timeliness in irrigating a farm is
Page 60 and 61: to rehabilitate his land by constru
Page 62 and 63: Land tenureSmall-scale farmers will
Page 66 and 67: Appendix 1Conservation agriculture
Page 68 and 69: Organization Activities Methods to
Page 70 and 71: Appendix 3Lablab and mucuna seed di
Page 73: Karatu DistrictDominick E. Ringo, C
Page 76 and 77: 10 Benefi ts and effects of conserv
Page 78 and 79: Karatu acknowledgementsWe are very
Page 80 and 81: Forces driving for adoption of cons
Page 82 and 83: Despite the soundness of conservati
Page 84 and 85: NgorongoroKageraMaraMonduliArumeruM
Page 86 and 87: TemperatureTemperature decreases wi
Page 88 and 89: Most of the surface and underground
Page 90 and 91: crop does not store well. But when
Page 92 and 93: used to attend to AIDS sufferers an
Page 94 and 95: Erosion is now considered responsib
Page 96 and 97: Traditional methods of soil conserv
Page 98 and 99: Tanzania Association of ForestersAc
Page 100 and 101: Tanganyika Farmers AssociationAchie
Page 102 and 103: History of conservation agriculture
Page 104 and 105: what is feasible is to intercrop, w
Page 106 and 107: to connect experiences from differe
Page 108 and 109: mainly cover crop practices were ad
Page 110 and 111: Alfred’s neighbour Cornel has bee
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Socio-economic and process aspectsW
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abreast of information. Information
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availability of agriculture credit,
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package being introduced should con
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of a planning workshop on conservat
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Organiza tionRIDEP (1980-1984)Natio
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Organiza tionMazingira BoraKaratu (
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Appendix 3 Estates in Karatu Distri
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ContentsAbbreviations .............
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AbbreviationsARIAgricultural Resear
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1 IntroductionOver 80% of the peopl
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3 MethodMbeya was selected as a cas
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Table 1. Agricultural characteristi
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Three agricultural officers serve t
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egin until the first rains. Maize y
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Table 4. Conservation agriculture r
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slasher, machete and billhook (nyen
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Farmers were advised to slash the c
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technical support. Trial treatments
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In the latest FARM Africa project,
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Crop yieldsNineteen farmers in Wang
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Changes in costs and incomeThe aver
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• Farmers proposed that to improv
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10 Gaps and challengesDespite the s
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12 Recommendations• While some be
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Appendix 1 Selected farmer profiles
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No. Farmer name M/F Age(yrs)Fam ily
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Appendix 3Intervention detailsIniti
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Conservation agriculture technology
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Land degradation due to soil erosio
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Banana crop with mucuna as a cover
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Types of soil cover: lablab plus ma
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The pigeon pea crop has been left o
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Demonstrating conservation agricult
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Transferring crop residue for lives
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