Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Dry Spells, Poor Soils, and Dryland Zones -- Drought -- Low Soil Fertility -- Defining Dryland Cropping in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Prospects for Genetic Improvement -- Maintaining and Accelerating the Pace of Varietal Change -- Prospects for New Varieties Well-adapted to the Drylands -- Cereal Hybrids in West Africa -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Prospects for Improved Crop Management -- Intensification of Input Use -- Conservation Agriculture -- Microdosing Fertilizer -- Seed Treatments -- Chapter 5 Prospects for Improved Land Management -- Improved Intercropping Systems -- Agroforestry Innovations Appropriate for the Drylands -- Animal Traction -- Response Farming -- Chapter 6 Crop and Rainfall Insurance -- Chapter 7 Climate Change -- Chapter 8 Technology Diffusion Prospects by 2030 -- Prospects in the Arid Zone -- Prospects in the Dry Semi-Arid Zone -- Prospects in the Wet Semi-arid Zone -- Prospects in the Dry Sub-humid Zone -- Research and Technology Transfer Costs -- Note -- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Boxes -- 2.1 Extensification versus Intensification in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2.2 Planting is Risky in the Drylands -- 2.3 Intensive Cases Studies versus Large-scale Surveys in Analyzing Coping Strategies -- 2.4 Historical Incidence and Severity of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2.5 Institutional Response to Recurring Drought in Niger -- 3.1 Release of First Striga-resistant Sorghum Varieties Developed Using Marker-Assisted Selection -- 3.2 Possibility of Producing Irrigated Pearl Millet During the Dry Hot Season in the Sahel -- 3.3 Pearl Millet and Sorghum Hybrids in India -- 4.1 Risk and Expected Profitability in Dryland Agriculture.
