Ten natural resource management practices/technologies (P/Ts) — interventions having a direct physical impact on the natural resource base — in use in Africa are analyzed. The analysis mainly follows a framework developed by A.I.D.”s Africa Bureau, which focuses on factors contributing to P/T adoption, rates of adoption, and biophysical, productivity, and income impacts. The P/Ts analyzed are: physical contour barriers (Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia); home gardens (Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana); biological contour barriers (Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania); natural forest management/extractive reserves (Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana); game ranching (Burkina Faso); woodlots and multipurpose tree gardens (Senegal, Mali, Niger); community-based wildlife management (Zimbabwe); ecotourism (Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya); windbreaks (Niger, Mali); and improved fallow (Zambia, Benin, Nigeria). A case study of a farmer who used several P/T”s in the Operation Haute Vallee project zone of Mali is also described. A final section weighs the pro”s and con”s of the analytical framework and examines the issues of P/T sustainability and impact monitoring. Includes bibliography.
