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Neil Rowe Miller

Neil Rowe Miller serves as an independent consultant based in the US.  He recently completed 10 years, based in Tanzania, as the head of a 5-person technical team supporting projects funded by the Canadian Food Grains Bank in sub-Saharan Africa. His career spans 40 years working with small-scale farmers in the developing world as well as consulting for large-scale commercial grain farmers in the U.S. and running a non-profit agriculture training farm in central Texas.

  1. Conservation Agriculture Core Training Materials

  2. Other Farmer Training Guides

    Resources associated with the Conservation Agriculture Core Training Resources

  3. CFGB Conservation Agriculture Newsletter

    Since 2014, the Foodgrains Bank network has sponsored a Conservation Agriculture Capacity Development Program to maximize coordination and learning between Canadian Foodgrains Bank members and partners implementing Conservation Agriculture (CA) programming in sub-Saharan Africa. This program has...

  4. Agricultura de conservación en áreas con alta precipitación

    30/4/2015 Recientemente conocimos de correspondencia entre varios miembros de la red sobre el tema de Agricultura de Conservación (AC) en áreas lluviosas. La información parecía ser potencialmente útil para otros miembros de la red de ECHO de manera que la compartimos aquí.
    Conservation Agric...

  5. Promoting Maresha Scale-up through Mechanization Service Providers

    10/8/2023
    East Africa

  6. FMNR Works Along-Side CA Principles

    Farmers in southern Niger have reclaimed 5 million hectares of land and increased food production by more than 500,000 tons per year by managing naturally-occurring trees and shrubs with Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). The FMNR movement began in the early 1980s, and in recent years...
    East Africa

  7. Cover Crops Lessons Learned

    3/2/2015
    Cover Crops East Africa

  8. Testing and Replenishing Your Soils

    1/10/2019 Soil infertility is a key constraint to crop production for small farmers. Soils throughout Sub-Saharan Africa are degraded and deficient in nutrients and organic matter. As a result, there is a growing demand for soil testing services from farmers and NGO staff who want guidance on which inputs...

  9. Promoting Maresha Scaleup Through Mechanization Service Providers

    21/2/2023 Session: This presentation will entail a discussion on the promotion of the ‘Maresha seed planter through the mechanism of private farmers who act as service providers for payment, and how the private sector can be an effective means of scaling up a project. Biographical information: Neil Rowe...
    East Africa

  10. Using Evidence-Based Agricultural Advice

    12/2/2019 Session: Agriculture Extension agents often need to respond to a wide range of questions from farmers and other stake holders. This session will discuss the importance of respecting locally-developed technologies, but verifying them with scientific research before promoting them widely. Methods...
    East Africa

  11. Conservation Agriculture: Improving soil health and human nutrition in uncertain environments

    7/8/2018 Session: Climate uncertainty and environmental degradation cause deterioration in nutritional status of rural farm families throughout the tropics. Conservation Agriculture methods allow farmers to adapt to these challenges by building soil quality, lowering the risks of uncertain rainfall, and...
    Conservation Agric... East Africa

  12. Green Manure Cover Crops in Conservation Agriculture

    8/2/2017 Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints and...
    Cover Crops Green Manures and ... GMCC Sustainable Agricu... East Africa

  13. Cover Crops for Highland Areas

    1/11/2016 Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints and...
    Green Manures and ... Cover Crops Green Manure Cover... East Africa

  14. Integrated Soil Fertility Management & Conservation Agriculture

    8/2/2017 Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints and...
    Conservation Agric... Soil Fertility Green Manures and ... Cover Crops East Africa

  15. Integrating Soil & Water Conservation in CA

    1/11/2016 The session will discuss integrating conservation agriculture with soil and water conservation measures as well as other farming systems. Presenter:Neil Rowe Miller serves with Mennonite Central Committee as a technical advisor to conservation agriculture projects funded by the Canadian Food...
    Conservation Agric... Soil Conservation Water Conservation East Africa

  16. Conservation Agriculture: Improving soil health and human nutrition in uncertain environments

    Session: Climate uncertainty and environmental degradation cause deterioration in nutritional status of rural farm families throughout the tropics. Conservation Agriculture methods allow farmers to adapt to these challenges by building soil quality, lowering the risks of uncertain rainfall, and...
    Conservation Agric... East Africa

  17. Green Manure Cover Crops in Conservation Agriculture

    Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints and...
    Cover Crops Green Manures and ... Green Manures GMCC Sustainable Agricu... Conservation Agric... East Africa

  18. Why Farmers Don’t Do What We Tell Them (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

    Summary :The myth of farmer conservatism blinds many development practitioners from recognizing that the greatest asset they have in technology development and promotion is the very farmers whose behavior they hope to change. Examples will be shared of farmer-generated technologies that make more...

  19. Factors Affecting Greater Uptake of CA in East Africa - the CA Plus Model

    Session:Conservation Agriculture (CA) provides clear soil conservation benefits, but meta-analyses from across sub-Saharan Africa indicate that CA on its own only provides a small increase in yields – not enough for most farmers to overcome food insecurity in the short term. Taking a more...
    ECHO Conference East Africa CFB CA Plus Model

  20. Factors Affecting Greater Uptake of CA in East Africa - The CA Plus Model

    23/2/2023 Session: Conservation Agriculture (CA) provides clear soil conservation benefits, but meta-analyses from across sub-Saharan Africa indicate that CA on its own only provides a small increase in yields – not enough for most farmers to overcome food insecurity in the short term. Taking a more...
    East Africa

  21. Scaling up CA Plus Among Smallholder Farmers

    Session:Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption has struggled to take off among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Combining CA principles with other good agronomic practices, which bring greater short-term returns in a "CA-Plus" approach, has been key to creating the economic incentives...

  22. Maresha minimal tillage plow and seeder

    ECHO East Africa staff have worked with Neil Rowe-Miller,Agriculture and Livelihoods Technical Advisor at Tearfund, and the local community around Arusha, Tanzania, to help adapt the Ethiopian Maresha plow for smallholder conservation agriculture applications. The attached drawings are from May,...

  23. Best Practices in Soil Testing – Practical Session

    8/2/2017 Neil Rowe Miller serves with Mennonite Central Committee as a technical advisor to conservation agriculture projects funded by the Canadian Food Grains Bank in eastern Africa. His career spans 33 years working with small-scale farmers in the developing world as well as consultingfor large-scale...
    Soil Testing Best Practices Conservation Agric... East Africa

  24. Best Practices in Soil Testing – Practical Session

    Neil Rowe Miller serves with Mennonite Central Committee as a technical advisor to conservation agriculture projects funded by the Canadian Food Grains Bank in eastern Africa. His career spans 33 years working with small-scale farmers in the developing world as well as consultingfor large-scale...
    Soil Testing Conservation Agric... East Africa

  25. La agricultura de conservación (AC)

    Recurso clave
    28/9/2016 Mucho del contenido a continuación se toma de publicaciones previas de ECHO que están disponibles enwww.ECHOcommunity.org. Las referencias se abrevian como AN (Notas de Asia), EAN (Notas del Este de África), EDN (Notas de Desarrollo de ECHO), y TN (Notas Técnicas). Donde es posible, enlaces de...
    Conservation Agric... Mulch Soil Conservation Plant Diversity Crop Diversity Soil Disturbance Soil Fertility Soil Remediation Soil Erosion

  26. Breakout Session - Meet the Speaker - Neil Rowe Miller

    Summary :In this session, Neil Rowe Miller, will be available to discuss questions and share more information and experience about his Plenary Talk,Why Farmers Don’t Do What We Tell Them (and Why That’s a Good Thing) The myth of farmer conservatism blinds many development practitioners from...