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Abstract,Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming, 2016 Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by 2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to meet this challenge has been organic farming, with...
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1991-01-06 This booklet grew out of a one day workshop. By learning to raise compost crops, diet crops and income crops in a 100 square foot bed, you can begin to understand what you will need to know in order to grow food for your diet, crops for a modest income, and the compost material to keep the soil...
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2009-03-20 The sustainability of the human civilization is ultimately dependent of the ecological health of the landscapes--the range-lands, grasslands, forest, and farmland--that surround it.
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The Haitian Foundation for Sustainable Agricultural Development (FONHDAD) is a non-profit institution with administrative and financial autonomy. Its founding members are constituted by the university, the voluntary and the private sectors of Haiti. Its aim is to contribute to the modernization...
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2006-06-20 Cuba's enforced ecological learning experience Input substitution or ecological agriculture? The transition process to ecological agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico Towards more sustainable livelihoods Beechenhill Farm finds an organic future Organising for organic agriculture in Tanzania Cabiokid,...
- Abstract, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems,2020 On-farm diversification is a promising strategy for farmers to adapt to climate change. However, few recommendations exist onhowto diversify farm systems in ways that best fit the agroecological and socioeconomic challenges farmers face....
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2020-01-01 This book on the sustainable use of soils and water addressed a variety of issues related to the utopian desire for environmental sustainability and the deviations from this scene observed in the real world. Competing interests for land are frequently a factor in land degradation, especially...
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1995-12-19 Coping with change in dryland savannah Sustainable agriculture in different environments Food security Watershed development in India through peoples participation Nutrientdynamics and agricultural intensification - Nigeria Legumes for sustainable food production Legumes Farmers in Argentina...
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1996-12-19 Assessing sustainability in Burkina Faso Grassroots indicators Facilitating a joint analysis of change in Mexico Perceptions of nature differ among groups in Mexico Biodiversity-based productivity framework developed in India Farmers fencedout in India
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2017-01-01 This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case...