Resources Tagged: Dryland Farming

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  1. Dry Land Gardens

    20.03.2014
    Dryland Farming East Africa

  2. Contour Farming with Living Barriers

    This booklet reflects this focus on encouraging self-sufficiency of persons in rural communities throught the world. It discusses planting methods forliving barriers and other uses for living barriers. (2 Copies)
    Nusa Tenggara Timur Indonesia Living Fence Shelterbelts Hedgerow Dryland Farming Soil Conservation

  3. Introducing 100-Fold Gardens

    24.07.2019 Network member Lance Edwards works in Zimbabwe. He told us about using and promoting inexpensive, water-conserving planting beds that he calls 100-fold gardens. These are a type of “wicking bed”; they are lined with plastic so that water pools at the bottom in a reservoir. From there, water moves...
    Wick Irrigation Dryland Farming 100-Fold Gardens

  4. Food from Dryland Gardens

    Key Resource 01.02.1991 Food from Dryland Gardens encourages gardens that serve local needs, that are based on local knowledge, and that conserve natural resources and the biological diversity of traditional crops. It was written for field workers, extension agents, students, project workers, and program planners. Both...
    Dryland Farming Vegetable Gardening

  5. Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) - Baobab Magazine

    Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is an International NGO that facilitates information and knowledge exchange to and between extension workers or infomediaries and arid lands communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The information exchange activities focus on small-scale sustainable...
    Dryland Farming Key Resource

  6. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) - Drylands and pastoralism

    With research, training and advocacy, we help build climate resilience, productivity and equity in the dryland areas of East Africa, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan
    Dryland Farming Key Resource

  7. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

    The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is an international non-profit organization that undertakes scientific research for development.
    Dryland Farming Key Resource Underutilized Crops

  8. ICARDA - The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

    ICARDA works with a tight focus on the problem-solving needs of resource-poor farmers, achieving this through the in-field delivery of its research outputs. Although global food production has increased by 20 per cent in the past decade, food insecurity and poverty remain widespread, while the...
    Key Resource Underutilized Crops Dryland Farming

  9. La collecte de l’eau: Directives pour de bonnes pratiques

    01.01.2013 Ces directives donnent une vue d’ensemble des bonnes pratiques éprouvées de collecte de l’eau dans le monde entier. Celles-ci constituent un guide de référence pratique tout en offrant un support et une expertise technique spécifique pour l’intégration des technologies de collecte de l’eau dans...
    Terracing Water Security Water Harvesting Dryland Farming Water Supply Sand Dam Microcatchment Rainwater Harvesting

  10. Baobab

    Adansonia digitatagrows and is native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It prefers to grow in drier, well-drained, rocky soils ranging between 0-1000m. For centuries it has been used for food, fodder, shelter, and shade. Trees mature slowly and should be protected from any cold temperatures.The...
    Agroforestry Trees Baobab Dryland Farming West Africa