Further reading

Find additional materials, such as posters, factsheets, or booklets for each manual/chapter that can be downloaded: DOWNLOADS

The authors recommend the following resources in the ‘African Organic Agriculture Training Manual’ at www.organic-africa.net for further reading:

• Definition and Benefits of organic agriculture for African farmers
• Soil fertility mana­gement
• Pest, disease and weed management
• Animal Husbandry
• Conversion to organic farming

Additional external resources include:

• The African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) is an organisation dedicated to promoting Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Africa. www.act-africa.org
• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). Push-Pull Technology. www.icipe.org/impacts/demonstration-research-impacts-communities/push-pull-technology
• Howard G. Buffet (2015). In Support of Conservation Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers; www.campaignforrealfarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Howard-G-Buffet-Nature-July-5-2012.pdf
• Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre is a not-for profit organisation based in Zambia and promoting sustainable organic agriculture. katczm.org
• The Howard G. Buffett Foundation Centre for No-Till Agriculture (HGBF CNTA) in Ghana centrefornotill.org demonstrates the adoption of smallholder conservation agriculture (CA)
• Bowman, G. (1997). Steel in the field: a farmer’s guide to weed-management tools. Sustainable Agriculture Network.
• IIRR and ACT. 2005. Conservation agriculture: A manual for farmers and extension workers in Africa. International Institute of Rural Re-construction, Nairobi; African Conservation Tillage Network, Harare.
• Rodale Institute. (2022). The difference between organis and conventional. rodaleinstitute.org/why-organic/organic-basics/organic-vs-conventional/
• Rodale Institute. 2020. Regenerative Agriculture and The Soil Carbon Solution.