Ressources Etiqueté: Smallholder Farm

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  1. Risk Aversion vs Hunger and Exhaustion

    20/10/2013 This article challenges the long-held assumption that smallholder farmers are risk averse and delay land preparation and planting until they are assured of adequate rainfall, and that they inefficiently used the natural resources available to them. The author proposes that farming operations are...
    Smallholder Farm Family Farm Rural Development Hunger Risk Aversion Risk Management Agricultural Devel... Economic Development

  2. The Rise of Pigeon Peas in Importance

    07/02/2017 Pigeon pea is an important green manure/cover crop with multiple agronomic and market impacts for small farmers, and fits ideally in a conservation agriculture system. Presenter : Said Silim has recently retired from a distinguished career in international development from ICRISAT, and helped to...
    Pigeon Pea Conservation Agric... Cover Crops Green Manures Smallholder Farm East Africa

  3. Sequel to Amaranth to Zai Holes

    20/04/2012 Many of you are already familiar withECHO’s previously published book,Amaranth to Zai Holes (A-Z ), acompilation of the first 51 issues ofEDN . Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmersis a sequel to A-Z , with contentdrawn primarily from issues 52 through100 of EDN , but also containing...
    Agricultural Devel... Sub-Tropics Smallholder Farm Urban Gardening Agricultural System Poverty Subsistence Farming

  4. Greener Food Production in Africa Resilient Crops and Zonal Management

    Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and targeted use of...
    Soil Degradation Resilience Food Security Smallholder Smallholder Farm East Africa

  5. The Rise of Pigeon Peas in Importance - Navigating the Value Chain

    Pigeon pea is an important green manure-cover crop with multiple agronomic and market impacts for small farmers, and fits ideally in a conservation agriculture system. Presenter : Said Silim has recently retired from a distinguished career in international development from ICRISAT, and helped to...
    Pigeon Pea Green Manures and ... Green Manures Cover Crops Value Chains Conservation Agric... Smallholder Farm Smallholder East Africa

  6. One Acre Fund

    20/10/2014
    Smallholder Farm East Africa

  7. Mobilizing Farmer Field Schools for Small Farmer Research

    20/02/2013
    Research Smallholder Farm East Africa

  8. Global Commerical Food Production

    03/02/2015
    Smallholder Farm East Africa

  9. The Edge of Enough

    20/12/2010
    Protein Smallholder Farm

  10. Green Manure Cover Crop Systems of Smallholder Farmers: experiences from tropical and subtropical regions

    Ressource principale 28/07/2004 In the 1980s and 1990s, green manure/cover crop (GMCC) systems became a popular agricultural technology in research and development efforts for smallholder tropical and subtropical farmers. However, few syntheses of these experiences have been conducted. This volume of case studies contributes...
    Cover Crops Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Smallholder Farm Small Scale