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Evolving Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in the Humid Zone of West Africa: Potential and Research Needs

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Cattle rearing in humid west Africa was nearly impossible in the past owing to the prevalence of trypanosomiasis, a disease caused by the tsetse fly. However, in recent times, with population pressure, jungle clearance, crop cultivation and tsetse control measures, the challenge has been reduced. Consequently there has been an influx of transhumant cattle rearers who used to visit the zone for dry season grazing and return to the safer sub-humid and semiarid zones in the wet season. An increasing number of them have begun to settle in the humid zone and are adopting crop-livestock mixed farming. There is also a tendency among some local crop farmers to adopt livestock in the farming systems. Consequently new farming systems are evolving in the zone. The potential of this evolving farming system and its implications for systems oriented research by national and international centres are examined.

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  • Jabbar, Mohammad A., 1993. "Evolving Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in the Humid Zone of West Africa: Potential and Research Needs," Research Reports 183015, International Livestock Research Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ilrirr:183015
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.183015
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    1. Jabbar, Mohammad A., 1996. "Energy and the Evolution of Farming Systems: The Potential of Mixed Farming in the Moist Savannah of Sub-Saharan Africa," Research Reports 183010, International Livestock Research Institute.
    2. Alice Pell, 1999. "Integrated Crop–livestock Management Systems in Sub-saharan Africa," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 1(3), pages 337-348, September.
    3. Houessou, Sandrine O. & Dossa, Luc Hippolyte & Diogo, Rodrigue V.C. & Houinato, Marcel & Buerkert, Andreas & Schlecht, Eva, 2019. "Change and continuity in traditional cattle farming systems of West African Coast countries: A case study from Benin," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 112-122.
    4. Jabbar, Mohammad A. & Swallow, B. M. & d'Iteren, G. & Busari, A., 1998. "Farmer Preferences And Market Values Of Cattle Breeds Of West And Central Africa," Research Reports 183007, International Livestock Research Institute.

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