Abstract:
Agricultural intensification in Africa is a necessary development, if rural poverty is to be reduced and
sufficient food is to be produced for the increasing and urbanizing populations. For agriculture to
be sustainable in the long run, the intensification process should not greatly reduce environmental
quality or degrade natural vegetation; hence the term ‘sustainable agricultural intensification’ has
been defined as a change in the production system towards increased input use leading to increased
productivity, according to agroecological principles and without adverse environmental impacts or the
cultivation of new land