Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1 The Challenge of Stimulating Adoption of Improved Natural Resource Management Practices in African Agriculture -- 2 Social Capital and Social Learning in the Process of Natural Resource Management -- 3 The Limits of Knowledge: Securing Rural Livelihoods in a Situation of Resource Scarcity -- 4 Farmers' Use and Adaptation of Alley Farming in Nigeria1,2 -- 5 Farmers as Co-developers and Adopters of Green-manure Cover Crops in West and Central Africa -- 6 Sustainable Management of Private and Communal Lands in Northern Ethiopia -- 7 Poverty and Land Degradation: Peasants' Willingness to Pay to Sustain Land Productivity -- 8 Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants -- 9 Agroforestry Adoption Decisions, Structural Adjustment and Gender in Africa -- 10 Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger -- 11 Smallholder Farmers' Use of Integrated Nutrient-management Strategies: Patterns and Possibilities in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya1 -- 12 Agroforestry for Soil-fertility Replenishment: Evidence on Adoption Processes in Kenya and Zambia -- 13 Evaluating Adoption of New Crop-Livestock-Soil-management Technologies using Georeferenced Village-level Data: the Case of Cowpea in the Dry Savannahs of West Africa -- 14 Contradictions in Agricultural Intensification and Improved Natural Resource Management: Issues in the Fianarantsoa Forest Corridor of Madagascar -- 15 Synergies between Natural Resource Management Practices and Fertilizer Technologies: Lessons from Mali -- 16 Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Tanzania: Government Policy and Farmers' Practices -- 17 Initiatives to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Soil-fertility Technologies for Maize-based Cropping Systems in Southern Africa.

18 A Bio-economic Model of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems: the Case of the Ginchi Watershed in Ethiopia -- 19 Nutrient Cycling in Integrated Plant-Animal Systems: Implications for Animal Management Strategies in Smallholder Farming Systems -- 20 Natural Resource Technologies for Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 21 Lessons for Natural Resource Management Technology Adoption and Research -- 22 Towards Improved Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture -- References -- Index.