Resources Tagged: Sustainable Agriculture Development
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This book was written to inform both the farming community and the environmentalist, ecologist, politicians, opinion-formers and the general public of the benefits of zero tillage, which establishes a strong link between the concerns of soil conservation and obligations to the envirnment.
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Combined with one another, and adapted and scaled-up across the African continent, these two systems, conservation agriculture with trees, and maize agroforestry, just migh ave the potential to foster an 'evergreen agriculture' that could benefit millions more farmers.
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Based on a groundbreaking meeting of conservationists and international development agencies, this volume advances our understanding of the current state of global famine and land degradation. Includes a section of case studies of highly successful programs that combine issues of food security on...
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1997-01-09 This booklet is a global directory of partnerships for sustainable agriculture.The summaries in the directory provide basic information about main crops, pests, as well as the impacts, constraints and challenges of each project. 52 pages, illustrations
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2020-01-01 Global crop production must substantially increase to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. This is constrained by the availability of nutrients, water, and land. There is also an urgent need to reduce the negative environmental impacts of crop production. Collectively, these issues...
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FPS creates educational materials that explain what nutritional food is, why our bodies need it and how to grow and use it. We focus on what are often neglected and underutilized plants, plants that are growing in and adapted to their environment, and are high in the most beneficial nutrients....
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2021-09-28
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Many farmer experiences with new technologies and promising crops stay just that, experiences, and promises. Implementing and scaling up technologies requires evaluation. Here we highlight a resource called the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), developed by the Food and...
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2016-01-01 The current conception of organic farming is the result of nearly a century of intellectual thought and dialogue, field observations and experiences, systematic experimentation, and codification of rules. Debates on the future viability of organic farming often focus on its capacity to produce...
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1991-01-01 The ILEIA workshop made an important contribution to the emergence of operational approaches to sustainable agricultural technology development. A great number of cases and descriptions of field experiences has been compiled and assessed, existing networks on participatory technology development...