Editors:
- Focuses on African research and smallholder farmers
- Presents key drivers of transformation of the African smallholder agriculture
- Recommends key policy options for the successful uptake of agricultural technologies
Part of the book series: Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa (SSAA)
Part of the book sub series: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (SAFS)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agronomy: Soils and Crop Development
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Water Resources in Agriculture and Fisheries
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Climate Change and Resilience
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About this book
This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’ food security. It presents positive scientific research that has been undertaken in Africa, in simpler terms, thus driving the research for development agenda contributing to the attainment of SDG 2. Numerous research that targets resource poor African smallholder farmers has been published, yet the region faces very low productivity levels. This lack of translation from research to food security and increased agricultural incomes is due to the poor uptake of scientific research by farmers, which is partly due to poor presentation of this body of knowledge into simpler forms that extension workers and farmers can directly adopt. Therefore, this book offers research information in an easy, digestible and application oriented style, so as to enable transformation of the African agricultural sector by effectively driving agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is of interest to African extension workers, who will translate the simplified knowledge into lessons that can be useful to smallholder farmers. The book is also beneficial for policy makers as well as academics, researchers and other science based professionals.
Editors and Affiliations
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SANUMARC, University of Namibia, Henties Bay, Namibia
Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa
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Agricultural Research Council—Natural Resources & Engineering, Pretoria, South Africa
Adornis Dakarai Nciizah
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Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre (RAVAC), University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus, South Africa
Patrick Nyambo
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Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, Midrandx, South Africa
Binganidzo Muchara
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Department of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Namibia, Hentiesbaai, Namibia
Ndakalimwe Naftal Gabriel
About the editors
Hupenyu holds a PhD in Soil Science, where he specialized in organic soil fertility management. Currently, he leads the Desert and Coastal Agriculture research program at the University of Namibia, with a combined 13 years’ experience in government agriculture research and training as well as university undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research in crop based agriculture. To date, he has published 24 manuscripts; contributed 4 book chapters and also supervised and examined several postgraduate students. His research focuses on waste beneficiation, vermi-technology and organic soil fertility management with a drive towards improving the soil quality among resource poor farmers.
Adornis D. NCIIZAH
Adornis holds a Ph.D. in Crop Science, his research focused on soil surface structural conditions and properties affecting early crop growth. He is currently a Specialist Researcher in Soil Science with theAgricultural Research Council– Natural Resources and Engineering (ARC-NRE) in Pretoria, South Africa. His current research work focuses on climate-smart agriculture, sustainable bio-energy feedstock production in marginal soils, micronutrient seed priming for micronutrient-deficient soils and sustainable agricultural production in smallholder farming areas. He has authored numerous scientific papers and reviews on agronomy and soil science and trained smallholder farmers in climate smart agriculture.
Patrick NYAMBO
Patrick holds a PhD in Crop Science where his research specialized on climate-smart and sustainable crop production practices. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher in the Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, working on the project entitled “Water-Energy-Food communities in South Africa: multi-actor nexus governance for social justice”. Since 2013, he has worked as a temporary lecturer, responsible for lecturing undergraduate courses and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate student projects. He worked as a research agronomist at the Agronomy Research Institute in Zimbabwe. Patrick has numerous publications in peer-reviewed international journals and has presented in local and international conferences on numerous occasions.
Binganidzo MUCHARA
Binganidzo is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa (UNISA). He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics, with a focus on Natural Resource Economics, Institutional Economics and Water Security Governance to enhance agricultural and economic performance. He worked as a Research Fellow with the International Water Security, based at Monash, South Africa. Binganidzo has been a researcher on projects funded by the Water Research Commission, Oxfam, Human Sciences Research Council, FAO, DAFF, USAID, IDS. He has supervised several MSc and PhD students in Business leadership atUNISA.
Ndakalimwe Naftal GABRIEL
Ndakalimwe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Namibia (UNAM). He holds a PhD in Fisheries and Aquatic Science, where his research focused on the use of herbal extracts in optimizing the growth of freshwater fish. He has 10 years’ experience in the field of aquaculture as researcher in the Ministry of fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia and as a lecturer and a researcher at UNAM. He has published several peer reviewed articles from reputable journals and also supervised several post graduate students in the field of aquaculture and fisheries sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security for African Smallholder Farmers
Editors: Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa, Adornis Dakarai Nciizah, Patrick Nyambo, Binganidzo Muchara, Ndakalimwe Naftal Gabriel
Series Title: Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6771-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6770-1Published: 01 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6773-2Published: 02 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6771-8Published: 28 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-6771
Series E-ISSN: 2730-678X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 442
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ecology, Agriculture