Publisher's Synopsis
This publication, Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability, demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts. This publication expands on selected research presented during the Lusaka Conference. The different chapters document sustainability experiences, including:mainstreaming organic agriculture into African development approaches; community-based livestock systems combining holistic range managementindigenous ethno-veterinary practices and new understanding of customary systems of resource management ecofunctional intensification through management of legumes, systems of rice intensification and integrated farmingsmallholders' knowledge harnessed through family farmers learning groups and customised information and communication technologies.
