Resources Tagged: Sustainable Agriculture
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The aim of this book is to examine the role of public policy and institutions in promoting genetic resources conservation and utilization in Kenya. The study was based on a global survey of trends in the utilization and conservation of genetic resources and a field study of Bungoma District in...
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This bulletin describes the legume species and their utilization in farming practices in the tropics and subtropics. With proper utilization, these species offer great potential for increasing food legumes adapted to tropics but only a few are extensively used. Substantial and immediate benefits...
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2019-11-20 Session :The mission of Thrive is to create a scalable model that empowers trainers to transform communities by teaching sustainable, natural and organic agriculture, enabling them to fight disease and generate income. This presentation will look at how Thrive uses the power of a...
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2017-01-20 Produced in Partnership with the ESRC STEPS Centre This is the first in a series of FreeBooks highlighting ten years of work of the ESRC STEPSCentre,with chapters drawn from our PathwaystoSustainability book series with Routledge,now numbering nearly 20 books (steps-centre.org/books).The...
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Key Resource 1992-03-10 This text examines the strategies and techniques of Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA) in the tropics and analyzes the scientific principles behind them. The central aim of the book is to show development workers how they can assist small-scale farmers in making the best use...
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2018-01-20 “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon...
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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...
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Nearly a century ago, the idea of “local food” would have seemed perplexing, since virtually all food was local. Food for daily consumption―fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, and dairy products―was grown at home or sourced from local farms. Today, most of the food consumed in the United States...
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Key Resource 1999-01-01 Women are critical to the well-being of farm households. Aside from raising children, women are expected to prepare all meals, maintain the homestead, and assist in crop and animal production, all the while tending to the general health of their families. Perhaps, ironically, it is because women...
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Key Resource 1997-06-25 Sustainable agriculture is not just a goal to be attained; it is an ongoing, dynamic process. Rather than a destination, it is a journey. At the present time, the vast majority of the world's agriculture is non-sustainable. If this self-destructive trend is allowed to continue, future generations...