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  1. Living Fence

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    1991/01/01 There are several reasons for establishing fences on the small farm. Fences are used to: To mark boundary lines between farms or next to roads. To separate adjacent fields used for distinct purposes To protect and keep animals from straying To protect crops from animal damage A fence represents a...
    Fences Living Fence Agroforestry
     

  2. Charcoal Production in 200-Liter Horizontal Drum Kilns

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    2016/02/05 Until recently, firewood was taken for granted in northern Thailand. With vast forests full of many types of trees, upland households could afford to be choosy concerning the wood they used for cooking. However, in recent years, more and more communities are facing restricted access to forest...
    Biochar Appropriate Techno... Charcoal
     

  3. Integrated Pest Management

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    2022/05/20 The current global situation calls for a multi-pronged approach to pest management. To be widely applicable, this approach must provide farmers with options to control pests at various scales of production (from small farms to very large operations) with a diversity of resources. Integrated pest...
     

  4. Best Practices in Improving Degraded Land

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    2012/11/14 The UNCCD estimates that over 250 million people are affected by land degradation, and about 1 billion people in over 100 countries are at risk. According to the WMO, 33% of the world’s land surface is vulnerable to land degradation.Degraded lands lead to overall reduced productivity and reduced...
    Land Degradation Saline Soils Soil improvemnt Soil Management
     

  5. Best Practices in Conservation Agriculture

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    2016/09/28 Farmers in many parts of the world, because of human population growth, have little choice but to crop their land continuously, with scarce resources to replace nutrients withdrawn by each successive crop. Crop residues are often lost as a source of organic matter and mulch, usually through...
    Soil Erosion Soil Remediation Soil Fertility Soil Disturbance Crop Diversity Plant Diversity Soil Conservation Mulch Conservation Agric...
     

  6. Agriculture in Times of Climate Change

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    2013/04/16 Smallholder farmers and agricultural development workers are reporting changes in climate. For example, during the 2012 ECHO Agricultural Workshop in Asia, 63 attendees representing at least 25 agriculture and community development organizations from across Myanmar were polled about their...
    Climate Change
     

  7. The Moringa Tree

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    1985/06/01 The moringa tree, Moringa oleifera, has probably been the most popular plant in ECHO's seed bank of underutilized tropical crops. The tree is native to India but has been planted around the world and is naturalized in many locales. Moringa goes by many names. In the Philippines, where the leaves...
    India Moringaceae Moringa Seed Moringa stenopetala Moringa oleifera
     

  8. Acid Soils of the Tropics

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    2002/01/01 Acidification of soil is a natural process with major ramifications on plant growth. As soils become more acid, particularly when the pH drops below 4.5, it becomes increasingly difficult to produce food crops. As soil pH declines, the supply of most plant nutrients decreases while aluminum and a...
    Soil pH Calcium Lime Fertilizer Ammonium Nitrate Alkaline Acidity Micronutrients Soil
     

  9. Assisting Pastoralists

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    2014/02/26 Pastoralism is a livelihood whereby people depend upon herding domesticated livestock. In East Africa, pastoralists depend primarily upon cattle, sheep, donkeys, goats and camels— listed in order of least resilience as one moves into drier and more arid lowland areas. Pastoralists play an...
    Pastoralist
     

  10. Nutrient Quantity vs Access

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    2014/01/01 In order to achieve high levels of agricultural productivity in the tropics at the lowest possible economic and ecological costs, we need to properly understand the relationship between nutrients in the soil and crop productivity. For this to happen, the current understanding needs to change. The...
    Agricultural Produ... Soil Fertility Ecological Restora... Soil Nutrients