Resources Tagged: Traditional Farming

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  1. Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming

    Key Resource 2007-05-25 This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting...
    Ecology Indigenous Peoples Traditional farming Shifting cultivation Sustainable Agricu... Fallow lands Forest degradation

  2. Indigenous Integrated Farming Systems In the Sahel

    World Bank Technical Paper Number 170 Africa Technical Department Series The study was part of a program of research into the future directions of livestock production, agricultural development, and resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa, carried out by the AgricultureDivision of the World...
    Traditional farming Sahel Agricultural Econo...

  3. Vegetable production Handbook for Florida / 2004-2005

    The purpose of this book is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available to the primary users of this book--the Florida vegetable industry. The book is divided into safety, marketing, crops, and illustrations for 2004-2005.
    Food Crops Vegetables Traditional farming

  4. Elements Pour La Lutte Integree Contre Les Ennemis Des Cultures En Afrique Soudano-Sahelienne

    2001-01-01 L'idée de produire ce manuel sur le contrôle intégré des ennemis des cultures enafrique Soudano-Sahélienne a émergé d'une collaboration entre des ONGs africains et le World Resources Institute, dans le cadre du «Partenariat pour l'Agriculture Durable». Dans l'exécution de ce projet, des études de...
    Traditional farming Pest Control

  5. Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Farming Systems of Eastern Africa: A Bibliography

    This bibliography includes over 1000 items concerning the indigenous knowledge of people in eastern Africa about farming systems, biomass products, natural resources management, land tenure and organization, and related topics. About 200 of the items spcifically refer to methods of elicitation of...
    Traditional farming Bibliography Africa Agricultural systems

  6. Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida, 2009-2010

    The purpose of this book is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available to the primary users of this book --the Florida vegetable industry. The book is divided into crops and illustrations.
    Food Crops Vegetables Traditional farming

  7. Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida 2007-2008

    The purpose of this book is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available to the primary users of this book--the Florida vegetable industry. The book is divided into safety, disease, crops, and illustrations.
    Food Crops Vegetables Traditional farming

  8. Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I, Grains

    Key Resource 1996-02-14 Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food...
    Traditional farming Grains Indigenous crops Africa Food Crops

  9. Transforming Traditional Agriculture Studies in Comparative Economics 3

    For traditional agriculture to become a productive sector of the economy in the developing countries requires the kind of analysis that has been given to industrialization. Mr. Schultz concentrates here on the economic problem confronting traditional agriculture. He presents a theoretical...
    Developing countries Traditional farming Agricultural innov... Agricultural Econo...

  10. FM 2007 LEISA Magazine Vol 23 #3

    2007-09-20 Bringing agriculture and health workers together Fighting AIDS with traditional foods and organic practices The revival of an ancient crop Seeking sustainable health improvements using orange-fleshed sweet potato Child nutrition in Mexico under conventional and organic agirculture Beating...
    Wild Plants Poultry Health Pesticides Traditional farming HIV/AIDS Vietnam Sweet Potato Children Nutrition Malnutrition