Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture

Foreword.- Preface.- Section I. Multi-Dimensional Sustainability.- Environmental Sustainability.- 2. Economic Sustainability.- 3. Institutional Sustainability in the Face of Climate Change: Empirical Insights from Irrigation Institutions in Iringa Rural District, Tanzania.- 4. Climate Change and Social Sustainability: A Case for Polycentric Sustainabilities.- Section II. Sustainable Management of Natural Resources.- 5. Land degradation neutrality: Will Africa achieve it? Institutional solutions to land degradation and restoration in Africa.- 6. Extent of salt affected soils and their effects in irrigated and lowland rain-fed rice growing areas of South Western Tanzania.- 7. Sustainability of intensification in smallholder maize production in Tanzania.- 8. Potentials for Rehabilitating Degraded Land in Tanzania.- 9. Economic aspects of genetic resources in addressing agricultural productivity in the context of climate change.- 10. Soil and nutrient losses and the role of gender inland degradation in Southwestern Uganda.- 11. The social dimension of water management in an era of increasing water scarcity.- Section III. Integrated Management of Natural Resources and Value Chains.- 12. Managing Landscapes for Environmental Sustainability.- 13. Economic Impact of Drip Irrigation regimes on Sorghum production in Semi Arid Areas of Tanzania.- 14. Social Aspects of Water Governance in the Context of Climate Change and Agriculture.- 15. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris Savi, L.) Production in Tanzania.- 16. Institutional water resources management and livelihood adaptation A case from Kilombero rural areas, Tanzania.- 17. Institutional aspects of genetic resources in respect of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 18. Crop adaptation to climate change in SSA: the role of genetic resources and seed systems.- 19. Updating legacy soil maps for climate resilient agriculture: A case of Kilombero Valley, Tanzania.- 20. Measuring Agricultural Sustainability in Agroforestry Systems.- 21. Experiences with adopting the Catchment Approach in Sustainable Land Management: The case of Kagera TAMP Tanzania.- 22. Sustainable intensification in mixed crop-livestock agro-ecosystems in the face of climate change: The case for landscapes in Tanzania.- 23. Smart strategies for enhanced agricultural resilience and food security under a changing climate in sub-Saharan Africa.- Section IV. Outreach and Extension.- 24. Globalizing Environmental Sustainability:”2015International Year of Soil” Transitioning to “2015-2024 International Decade of Soil”.- 25. From Ujamaa to Big Results Now: Sustainable Transformation of Tanzanian Agriculture in the frame of climate change.- Section V. Private Sector Solutions.- 26. Effect of improved plant nutrition on maize (Zea mays) and rice (Oriza sativa) grain chemical nutrient content under smallholder farming systems in Tanzania.- 27. Public-private partnership for sustainableproduction and marketing of goat milk in light of climate change.- 28. Private Sector Actions to Enable Climate-Smart Agriculture in Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania.- 29. The role of selected Agroforestry trees in Temperature Adaptation on Coffea arabica: A case study of Moshi District, Tanzania.- Section VI. Agricultural Risk, Insurance and Policy.- 30. Addressing Climate Change through Risk Mitigation: Welfare Implications of Index Insurance in Northeastern Tanzania.- 31. Assessing the Economic Value of El Niño-based seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe.- Section VII. Agricultural Research for Sustainability.- 32. Kinds of Research: relationship with agricultural research for sustainability.- 33. Biological Inoculants for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in the Sub-Saharan Africa Smallholder Farming Systems.- 34. The Economics of Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Implications of Climate Change.- 35. Research and Development Priorities.- Appendix.- Rapporteur Summaries.- List of Participants.- Program.- Index.