TY  - JA
AU  - Baudron,F.
AU  - Andersson,J.A.
AU  - Corbeels,M.
AU  - Giller,K.E.
TI  - Failing to yield? ploughs, conservation agriculture and the problem of agricultural intensification: an example from the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
SN  - 1743-9140
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London (United Kingdom)
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Yields
KW  - Ploughs
KW  - Conservation agriculture
KW  - Intensification
KW  - Zimbabwe
N1  - Peer review; Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0022-0388
N2  - Agricultural intensification, or increasing yield, has been a persistent theme in policy interventions in African smallholder agriculture. This article focuses on two hegemonic policy models of such intensification: (1) the ‘Alvord model’ of plough-based, integrated crop-livestock farming promoted in colonial Zimbabwe; and (2) minimum-tillage mulch-based, Conservation Agriculture, as currently preached by a wide range of international agricultural research and development agencies. An analysis of smallholder farming practices in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley, reveals the limited inherent understanding of farmer practices in these models. It shows why many smallholder farmers in southern Africa are predisposed towards extensification rather than intensification, and suggests that widespread Conservation Agriculture adoption is unlikely
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12665/59
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.587509
T2  - Journal of Development Studies
ER  -