Agroforestry Extension Resources

Resources A100-109

A101 Agroforestry in Africa - a Survey of Project Experience

Paul Kerkhof. Edited by Gerald Foley and Geoffrey Barnard. 1990. PANOS. (SIDA, CEC, CTA) ISBN  1-870670 16 7, 216pp, £10 pounds

A useful document with some specific lessons on extension. The web site blurb states: "This study presents a first-hand report of 21 projects throughout Africa, illustrating the initial challenges of introducing Agroforestry in the region. It looks at the problems and dilemmas that project staff had to face, and the lessons they learnt - often the hard way. Their combined experience provides an important insight into the potential for agroforestry, and vital clues as to how projects can be better designed in future."

• Available as paperback from PANOS. Details at: http://www.panos.org.uk/resources/bookdetails.asp?id=1015

CONTENTS:

PART I

LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE  
Attitudes to Tree Growing
Incentives
Effect of Trees on Crop Production
The Need for Flexibility
Designing Surveys and Research Trials
Proving the Technical Package
Extension Methods
Institutional Framework
Conclusions

PART II
THE PROJECTS
1. Projet Agropastoral de Nyabisindu, Rwanda ,
2. Soil Erosion Control and Agroforestry Project, Tanzania
3. Promotion of Adapted Farming System Based on Animal Traction, Cameroon
4. The Gituza Forestry Project, Rwanda
5. Kenya Woodfuel Development Programme
6. BAT Afforestation Scheme, Kenya
7. Rural Afforestation Project, Zimbabwe
8. Gursum Land use Project, Ethiopia
9. Projet Bois de Villages, Burkina Faso and Mali
10. The Village Afforestation Programme, Tanzania
11. Reforestation Around Wells in Northern Senegal
12. Majjia Valley Windbreak Project, Niger
13. Koro Village Agroforestry Project, Mali
14. Projet Agro-forestier, Burkina Faso
15. Soil Conservation and Agroforestry Project, Zambia
16. The HADO Protect, Tanzania
17. Turkana Rural Development Project, Kenya
18. East Pokot Agricultural Project, Kenya
19. Forest Land Use Project, Guesselbodi Niger

PART III
APPROACHES TO PROJECT DESIGN AND IMPLEMETATION
Initial Surveys
Research: working towards solutions
Technical Packages
Dispersed intercropping and alley cropping
Tree planting on contour lines and farm boundaries
Tree planting in woodlots
Windbreaks
Microcatchments
Promoting natural regeneration in pastoral areas
Matching the package to the context
Extension Techniques
Individual extension
Group extension
Model farms and demonstration plots
Using schools to spread the project message
Audio-visual aids
Excursions
Involving agricultural ministries
Staff Training
Production and Distribution of Seedlings
Centralised nurseries
Group nurseries
Farm nurseries •
Supply of seed

Monitoring and Evaluation
Measuring Success and Failure
Index