Conservation agriculture (CA) in Tanzania: the case of the Mwangaza B CA farmer field school (FFS), Rhotia Village, Karatu District, Arusha

• Published in: International journal of agricultural sustainability Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 145 - 152
• Main Authors: Owenya, Marietha Z, Mariki, Wilfred L, Kienzle, Josef, Friedrich, Theodor, Kassam, Amir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis Group 01.02.2011; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Agriculture; Conservation; Corn; cover crops; Crops; farmer; Farmers; field; Food; Food and Agriculture Organization; food security; hunger; Land use planning; livelihood; Livestock; Meetings; Population; Population density; poverty; Rain; ripping; Rural areas; Rural development; school; schools; Soil erosion; Soil fertility; soil health; sustainability; sustainable land management; Towns; villages; Germany; Tanzania; United Nations

This project was initiated to promote conservation agriculture (CA) in Tanzania so as to improve the food security and rural livelihood of small- and medium-scale farmers through the scaling-up of CA as a sustainable land management (SLM) tool as well as increasing the numbers of SLM-CA farmer field...