Animal Traction in a Farming Systems Perspective - A Farming Systems Support Project Networkshop Held at Kara, Togo on March 3-8, 1985

摘要

The report is on the FSSP Networkshop on 'Animal Traction in a Farming Systems Perspective', which was held March 4-8, 1985, in Lama Kara, Togo. The report is divided into six sections. The first provides an overview, background, and summary of the networkshop and outlines the five major themes of discussion for the five-day program. Section II contains major background presentations including a summary of the systems experience to date related to livestock, an overview of animal traction research and extension in Africa, and a presentation covering the highlights of a previous networkshop in Swaziland. Section III reports on the field trip to visit several animal traction projects in the Lama Kara region and the country reports made by the non-Togolese networkshop participants. Section IV summarizes small group discussions on the five major themes. Section V gives the wrap-up and concluding statements by networkshop facilitators and a summary of the participant evaluation. The final section contains appendices.