From subsistence farming to sugar-canemonoculture: impacts on agrobiodiversity, local knowledge and food security



From subsistence farming to
sugar-canemonoculture:
impacts on agrobiodiversity,
local knowledge and food security

A case study of two irrigation and agricultural
development projects in Swaziland


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Rome, 2008

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Table of Contents

Part 1   [788 Kb]

    Cover
    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    List of acronyms

Part 2   [294 Kb]

    1. Introduction

    2. Overview

    Socio-economic context
    Agriculture and livestock sectors
    Macroeconomic trends and related impacts on food security

Part 3   [716 Kb]

    3. The projects and their impacts

    National development strategy and water irrigation schemes
    Komati Downstream Development Project
    Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project
    Assessing the impacts of the KDDP and the situation in the LUSIP area
    Study methodology
    Discussion of results: the KDDP
    Land availability and allocation to crops
    Crops grown
    Farming practices, inputs, and food storage techniques
    Livestock
    Access to membership
    Discussion of results: the LUSIP
    Food security implications of the KDDP

Part 4   [590 Kb]

    4. Concluding remarks and recommendations for implementation of the LUSIP

Part 5   [193 Kb]

    References
 

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