Resources Tagged: Small Farm Development

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  1. The Hop Grower's Handbook

    It’s hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops. The runaway craft beer market’s convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer―such as hops and barley―is...
    Sustainable Agricu... Small Scale Produc... Small Farm Develop... Varieties Integrated Disease... Hops

  2. Improving Lives Through Small Scale Vegetable Gardening

    05.10.2017 Home garden interventions are one of few agricultural interventions with a proven effect on nutritional outcomes and potentially contribute to 8 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a recent surge in interest, there remains a lack of knowledge about the most effective ways to...
    Urban Gardening Small Farm Develop... Garden Vegetables Asia

  3. How to Start a Successful Ostrich Farm – ZAS

    Cows and maize are often the first images that come to mind when thinking about farms, but many non-traditional types of farms also exist. Ostrich farming is one type of agriculture that can have many advantages. The ostrich (Struthio camelius) is a member of the ratite family (flightless birds)....
    Downloads ZAS Small Farm Develop... Poultry Poultry Farms Ostriches

  4. Farmers' Experiments: Creating Local Knowledge

    This book seeks to contribute to ongoing debates about different approaches to agricultural technology development and transfer. One central theme in these debates relates to the value and potential contribution of what is widely referred to as 'indigenous technical knowlege," or local knowledge...
    Citizen Participation On-Farm Research Agriculture Resources Africa Agriculture Extension Small Farm Develop...

  5. Growing Multipurpose Trees on Small Farms, Module 8: Principles of Effective Extension

    01.01.1992 This manual aims to provide readily-understandable technical information to help extension workers respond to farmers' questions on how to grow and manage trees for householduses or for local markets. Although the manual is, for the most part, a technical reference, it must be emphasized that...
    Agriculture Extension Useful Tree Small Farm Develop... Asia Multipurpose trees

  6. The Home Vegetable Garden: A Handbook

    01.01.1972 The Home Vegetable Garden: A Handbookprovides infomation on the reasoning and process of strating a personal vegetable garden. This book includes information including a home garden harvest, sucession plantings, a small garden plan, garden tool and equipment, and much more.
    Garden Planning Soil Management corn Small Farm Develop... Vegetable gardening

  7. Water Management on Small Farms: A Training Manual for Farmers in Hill Areas

    This booklet was developed as a training aid for use in irrigation workshops conducted for small farmers and technicians in the Peruvian highlands through USAID. Much of the agriculture there takes place on stepp slopes, shallow soils and small farm plots. Irrigation extension personnel found the...
    Small farms Rainwater Harvesting Irrigation Management Small Farm Develop... Irrigation

  8. Growing Multipurpose Trees on Small Farms, Module 7: Selling Tree Crops

    01.01.1992 This manual aims to provide readily-understandable technical information to help extension workers respond to farmers' questions on how to grow and manage trees for householduses or for local markets. Although the manual is, for the most part, a technical reference, it must be emphasized that...
    Forestry Tree Enterprise Small Farm Develop... Asia Multipurpose trees

  9. Growing Multipurpose Trees on Small Farms, Module 6: Harvesting Crops of Multipurpose Trees

    01.01.10992 This manual aims to provide readily-understandable technical information to help extension workers respond to farmers' questions on how to grow and manage trees for householduses or for local markets. Although the manual is, for the most part, a technical reference, it must be emphasized that...
    Useful Tree Small Farm Develop... Asia Multipurpose trees

  10. Growing Multipurpose Trees on Small Farms, Module 5: Tending Multipurpose Trees

    01.01.1992 This manual aims to provide readily-understandable technical information to help extension workers respond to farmers' questions on how to grow and manage trees for householduses or for local markets. Although the manual is, for the most part, a technical reference, it must be emphasized that...
    Useful Tree Small Farm Develop... Asia Multipurpose trees