Recursos Etiquetado: Rural Development

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  1. Training in Infrastructure for Developing Countries

    19/6/1992 Courses for water, engineering and development offered through Loughborough University in the UK.
    Education Rural Development Water

  2. Cashew Growing Observations

    19/6/1992 Feedback from the network regarding cashew production.
    Cashew Rural Development Fruit Trees

  3. Improving Backyard Chicken Production

    19/10/1995 “Probably more people are directly involved in chicken production throughout the world than in any other single agricultural enterprise.” Maintaining and improving the productivity of backyard chicken flocks is important for the wellbeing of rural families. Backyard producers value chickens for...
    Chickens Livestock Rural Development

  4. Captación de agua en micropresas

    19/3/1999 En tres programas de Honduras se han buscado maneras en que los agricultores deladeras pobres puedan captar el agua de lluvia en sus propios campos y retenerla allí dos o tres meses. El agua podría posteriormente utilizarse para el riego suplementario durante las sequías o para extender la...
    Rural Development Water Harvesting Water Catchment Microcatchment

  5. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

    19/11/1997 One of the immediate problems directly affecting agricultural output and quality of life in Niger is the severe deforestation which has occurred, particularly since the 1960’s. Simply planting more trees does not solve the problems. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration is a practice that protects...
    Agroforestry Rural Development FMNR Natural Regeneration Dryland Farming Semi-arid

  6. Manejo de Barbecho (tephrosia) en Camerún

    19/10/1999 Stefan Cherry, quien acaba de recibir su grado de maestría en la Universidad de Cornell, comparte conocimientos extras desde una comunidad de Camerún donde forma parte integral del sistema de agricultura.]
    Rural Development Cover Crops Green Manures Fallow

  7. Now That I’m Here, How Do I Begin?

    20/9/2000 When you began work in a new community, how did you quickly get an overall understanding of the nature and workings of that community to form the base for your future work? Our first task in a new location is to learn about the lives, needs, and priorities of the people there. Beginning as a...
    Rural Development Participatory Methods

  8. After 10 Years In Haiti Have I Done Any Good?

    20/4/2003 Politically and economically, the ten plus years our family has been in Haiti have been rather tumultuous. There was a coup in October of 1991 against President Jean Bertrand Aristide, then four years of crushing embargo when gasoline cost $20 a gallon and neither tools nor parts could be...
    Appropriate Techno... Rabbits Rural Development Haiti Poultry Irrigation

  9. SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less Can Be More

    20/1/2001 SRI involves the use of certain management practices which together provide better growing conditions for rice plants, particularly in the root zone, than those for plants grown under traditional practices. We recently learned about a method of raising rice that produces substantially higher...
    Rural Development SRI Rice Farming Systems

  10. La Gerencia Puede Aprenderse

    20/1/2004 El área de gestión empresarial puede parecer extraña para muchos trabajadores de desarrollo agrícola, pero la buena gestión empresarial puede ser un ministerio efectivo. La mayoría de la gente pasa la mayor parte de sus horas de trabajo bajo la gestión empresarial de alguien. No existe...
    Rural Development Management