Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System: Global Context to Local Dynamics of Sustainable Agriculture

390 Pages·2014·10.87 MB·English

by  Mohamed Behnassi

Science, Policy and Politics of Modern
Agricultural System
Mohamed Behnassi • Shabbir A. Shahid
Nazia Mintz-Habib
Editors
Science, Policy and Politics
of Modern Agricultural
System
Global Context to Local Dynamics
of Sustainable Agriculture
Editors
Mohamed Behnassi Nazia Mintz-Habib
Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Centre of Development Studies
Sciences University of Cambridge
Ibn Zohr University of Agadir Cambridge
North-South Center for Social Sciences United Kingdom
(NRCS)
Agadir Morocco
Shabbir A. Shahid
Salinity Management
International Center for Biosaline
Agric, Dubai
United Arab Emirates

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Preface
This book is the outcome of an international conference on “Climate Change, Agri-
Food, Fisheries, and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy
Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011)”
organized on May 19–21, 2011 in Agadir (Morocco) by the North-South Center for
Social Sciences (NRCS) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter-
nationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany and the Institute for Research
and Development (IRD), France.
A wide range of participants had taken part in the second edition of this con-
ference (researchers, experts, policy makers, NGO actors, businesses, professional
organizations, advisory and support services, development institutions, etc.). Re-
searchers and experts from institutions in Northern and Southern countries and
from a wide variety of disciplines (including social sciences, ecology, meteorology,
agronomy, biology, genetics, animal sciences, food processing, sociology, anthro-
pology, economics, management, geography, land planning, modeling, engineering
sciences, educational sciences, marine sciences, etc.) had enriched and widened the
scientific exchanges, and consequently shaped the conference outcome.
ICCAFFE2011 was organized in a global context marked by: (1) the failure of
the Copenhagen Summit to come up with a binding agreement to deal with cli-
mate change; (2) The fragility of the world food security, the seriousness of hunger
consequences, and the inefficiency of different policies and programs devoted to
achieve sustainable food security; (3) the decrease of global marine biodiversity
and fish stocks because of different pressures exerted by overfishing, environmental
degradation, and the impacts from human-induced climate change; (4) The grow-
ing loss of biodiversity and degradation of forest ecosystems, as a result of climate
change and anthropic activities impacts, despite a global convention committing
governments to halt the decline.
The conference program had covered a diversity of themes, such as, (1) climate
change, food security and agriculture, (2) climate change adaptation in food and
agriculture perspective, (4) innovation to address climate change, (5) sustainable
agriculture and capacity building, (6) biofuel linkages with climate change, agricul-
ture, and food security, (7) sustainable marine ecosystems and fisheries, (8) contest-
ing the agro-food system in the context of climate change, (9) food’s climate impact
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and the need for a green and climate-friendly consumerism, (10) climate change,
ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation, and (11) the need for proactive
and coordinated policy responses.
The book chapters, selected after a rigorous peer-review, represent the best part
of the conference proceedings, published in three contributed volumes. The chap-
ters are distributed into four parts. Part I deals with sustainable agriculture develop-
ment within a context marked by environmental, economic and social dynamics and
addresses topics such as global climate change, agriculture, and related challenges
including socioeconomic factors, adaptation, poverty reduction and water manage-
ment. Part II deals with impacts of soil degradation in terms of agricultural pro-
ductivity and covers issues pertaining to expert systems in assessing and managing
degraded lands, agricultural productivity, land suitability and rehabilitation. Part III
focuses on livestock production enhancements—such as feed resources and supple-
mental feeds for animals—and women capacity building in dairy management. Part
IV shares the outcomes of research projects in the field of agrobiodiversity, climate
change and livelihoods, addressing topics such as comanagement of forests, car-
bon consumption models, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration, and
scarce mangroves forests.
We hope this book will be an excellent source of scientific information to be
used by a myriad of stakeholders, such as researchers and experts, professors and
students, land use planners, decision makers, NGO actors, and politicians.
The Editors
Acknowledgments
I have been honored to share the editorship of this volume with my colleagues
Dr Shabbir A Shahid, a Senior Scientist at the International Center for Biosaline Ag-
riculture (ICBA) Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Dr. Nazia Mintz-Habib Social
Scientist at the University of Cambridge, UK whose commitment and intellectual
potential made the editing process a smooth and exciting experience. I highly ac-
knowledge the efforts of the editors for their dedications and hard work to bring this
book into its final shape.
On behalf of my coeditors, I would like to gratefully and sincerely thank the
members of the Scientific Committee, from the inception of the conference theme
through conference organization and completion of this book. Their involvement in
the peer-review of the preselected chapters had contributed to the speeding up of
the publishing process. Deepest thanks go also to all participants in ICCAFFE2011
who made this event possible even if not all could contribute to this volume. Ac-
knowledgements are also due to many institutions for their support. In particular,
we thank the sponsors of the 2011 Conference, which in addition to NRCS, include
the GIZ and the IRD.
While the real value of this volume should be credited to chapters’ authors,
whose papers have been accepted for publication after a rigorous peer-review, any
shortcomings or omissions remain the editors’ responsibility. However, the editors
and the Publisher are not accountable for any statement made or opinion expressed
by the chapters’ authors.
Mohamed Behnassi
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Contents
Part I Sustainable Agricultural Development Face to
Environmental, Economic and Social Dynamics
1 Agricultural and Food System—Global Change Nexus:
Dynamics and Policy Implications ............................................................ 3
Mohamed Behnassi, Shabbir A. Shahid and R. Gopichandran
2 Challenges Facing the Macroeconomic Policy for Sustainable
Development in Agriculture—Based on the Model of
Organic Agriculture in Bulgaria ............................................................... 15
Vania Ivanova and Ekaterina Sotirova
3 Environmentally Sound and Commercially Sustainable
Agricultural Development in Nigeria ....................................................... 29
Usman Haruna and Mohammed Bashir Umar
4 Some Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Farmers’
Participation of Agricultural Extension Education Efforts: A
Case Study in Northeastern Thailand ...................................................... 47
Seksak Chouichom
5 Factors Influencing the Choice of Inorganic contrasting to
Organic Practices in Irish Potato Production and Viable
Actions to Reverse the Trend: A Case Study of Kisoro
District, South-Western Uganda ............................................................... 61
Joy Samantha Bongyereire
6 Moroccan Agriculture Facing Climate Change: Adaptation
and Local Distribution of the Value Added ............................................. 83
Salma Daoud, Abdelkader Lyagoubi and M. Cherif Harrouni
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7 Economic Impact of Climate Change on
Wheat Productivity in Bangladesh: A Ricardian Approach ................ 97
M. A. Monayem Miah, A. K. Enamul Haque and Sahadat Hossain
8 Farmers’ Attitude Toward the Traditional and Modern Irrigation .... 109
Abdullah Awad Al-Zaidi, Mirza B. Baig, Elhag Ahmed Elhag
and Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Juhani
Part II Impacts of Soil Degradation in Terms of Agricultural Productivity
9 Using Expert System for Sustainable Agriculture and
Capacity Building in Degraded Soils...................................................... 125
Gehan Abdel Hakeem Ibrahim Sallam
10 Managing Degraded Lands for Realizing Sustainable
Agriculture Through Environmental Friendly Technologies .............. 141
Mirza B. Baig and Shabir A. Shahid
11 Land Suitability Evaluation for Jatropha ( Jatropha Curcas L.)
Plantation in Indonesia ............................................................................ 165
Anny Mulyani, Adi Priyono and Fahmuddin Agus
12 Physiological Adaptation of Alfalfa Genotypes to Salt Stress
(One of Deleterious Impacts of Climate Change) ................................ 181
Masoud Torabi, Ridzwan A. Halim and Rajab Choukan
Part III Livestock Production Enhancement: Recommended
Techniques
13 Use of Prosopis juliflora Seedpod as Livestock Feed
Supplement in the Arid and Semi-arid Rangelands of Kenya ............. 197
Kipchirchir Koech Oscar, Kinuthia Robinson Ngugi
and Wahome Raphael Githaiga
14 Plankton and Common Reed- A Potential Resource for
Domestic Animals and Fish in Northern Delta Lakes of Egypt ........... 211
Abd El Aziz Mousa Nour
15 Is the “Livestock Revolution” Achievable in Water
Deprived Areas? A Reflection from Experiments with
Irrigated Smallholder Farms in Morocco .............................................. 223
Mohamed Taher Sraïri
16 Colostral IgG As Affected By Nutritional Status for Border
Leicester Merino Ewes Delivered in Kuwait ......................................... 239
Tareq Al-Sabbagh
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Part IV Agro-Biodiversity, Climate Change and Livelihoods:
Managing Interdependence
17 Simulation of Carbon Consumption by Biological Models .................. 251
Olaf Pollmann, Nelli Pollmann, Szilárd Podruzsik and Leon Rensburg
18 Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequestration in
Cocoa Agroforest in Southern Cameroon .............................................. 263
Louisa Zapfack, Jean Kotto-Same, Amougou Akoa
and Gaston Achoundong
19 Agroforestry Systems in Morocco: The Case of Olive Tree
and Annual Crops Association in Saïs Region ....................................... 281
Khalid Daoui and Zain El Abidine Fatemi
20 Sacred Mangrove Forests: Who Bears the Pride? ................................ 291
Mwita M. Mangora and Mwanahija S. Shalli
21 Adoption and Utilization of Ethno-postharvest Technologies
by Smallholder Farmers in Semi-arid Regions of
Zimbabwe: Case of Buhera District ....................................................... 307
Thomas Marambanyika, Timothy Mutekwa and Winmore Kusena
22 The Importance of Non Wood Forest Products for Rural
Livelihoods: The Case of South Kordofan State, Sudan ...................... 323
Taisser H. H. Deafalla, Dafa-Alla M. Dafa-Alla
and Mustafa M. El Abbas
23 Co-management of Forests and Forest Land Under
Decentralization Process in Central Vietnam ........................................ 333
Tran Nam Tu, Paul Burgers and Annelies Zoomers
Postface ..................................................................................................... 357
Biographies of Contributors ................................................................... 359
Authors Index ........................................................................................... 373
Subject Index ............................................................................................ 375