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Presenters and participants gathered from all over the world in order to address the present-day soil challenges and collectively share comprehensive solutions to take home to their very diverse communities. The presenters ranged from highly trained scientists to a South American rural priest who...
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Sustainability of agricultural systems is a major global concern due to population growth and a number of environmental factors. This book addresses the key to the development of sustainable agriculture-management of soil fertility. Combining data from temperate and tropical regions, it presents...
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1/01/1992 A survey of indigenous plant disease management systems worldwide which evaluates the labour requirements, external inputs, effectiveness and practicality of the techniques. It also suggests ways in which these traditional methods could contribute to today's environmental ethic and agriculture.
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If researchers knew what kept farmers from adopting natural methods to grow healthier plants and vanquish pests, curbing hunger worldwide might be more feasible. That assumption underpins a new joint research project at Virginia Tech. Trichoderma, a fungus, and cocopith, the dust of a coconut,...
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In addition to adequate housing, feeding and health care, the systematic management of the flock size can improve the production of eggs and chickens for improved family nutrition and income. 2 Copies
- This is a story of resistance against all odds, of Cuba's remarkable recovery from a food crisis brought on by the collapse of trade relations with the former Socialist Bloc and the tightening of the US trade embargo. Unable to import either food or materials needed for conventional agriculture,...
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1/06/1992 286 pages, illustrated
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1/01/2001 This booklet includes chapters on composting, crop rotation, improved fallow systems, management of animal manure, leaf teas and manure teas, and home-made pesticides. 35 pages, illustrated
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15/12/2011 This publication details the plan that ECHO and Akilah Institute designed to develop an agricultural useage of the 45 hectres of land. No page numbers, illustrated
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1/01/2015 The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia,and presents over 50 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology.It is asequel to the...