Recursos Tagged: Soil Management

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  1. Grass strips against soil erosion - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is...
    SALT Soil Management Sustainable Land M... Cross-Slope Barriers Rainwater Harvesting AccessAgriculture Asia

  2. Best Practices in Improving Degraded Land

    Key Resource
    14/11/2012 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...
    Soil Management Soil improvemnt Saline Soils Land Degradation

  3. Integrated Soil Fertility Management

    01/10/2000 64 pages, illustrated, photos Policy and Best Practice Document 7
    Soil Fertility Soil Management

  4. Living soils: Training exercises for integrated soils management (2nd ed.)

    01/06/2000 The FAO Programme for Community IPM in Asia, June 2000 101 pages, illustrated
    Soil Conservation Soil Management

  5. Soil Management collaborative research support program

    01/01/2003 In this 7th Annual Report, the Soil Management CRSP describes how it enables customers to make better nutrient, carbon, water and overall land management decisions on a global scale. Project Year 7, Annual Progress Report 64 pages, illustrated
    Soil Management

  6. Food for thought: A collection of comments and summary of ideas from selected chapters of "Secrets of the Soil" by Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird

    01/11/1994 A collection of ideas identified from "Secrets of the Soil" to be shared with others to empower them. Compiled by Development Services Department, World Vision Australia 47 pages, illustrated
    Soil Management

  7. Manual on integrated soil management and conservation practices: Soil Management and Conservation- Efficient Tillage methods for soil conservation

    Soil resources depletion is a widespread, direct threat to the sustainability of agricultural production. Dramatic changes in soil managment concepts are needed to counter the threat. This manual proposes options for such changes, addressing a very broad variety of topics related to agricultural...
    Soil Management Soil Conservation

  8. Soil management: a world view of conservation and production

    This book consideres tropical as well as temperate-region crops and discusses the specific soil management problems of subsistence farmers in tropical countries.
    Soil Management Soil Conservation

  9. Replenishing soil fertility in Africa: SSSA special publication

    Readers will survey the challenges of decreasing per-capita food production in Sub-Saharan Africa with a multidisciplinary team of soil scientists, agronomists, economists, anthropologists, and foresters. The book begins with the conceptual approach of investing in natural resource capital,...
    Soil Fertility Africa Soil Management

  10. Decision support tools for smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: a practical guide

    This book is meant to help agricultural researchers and extension staff in the selection and application of tools that facilitate decision-making to improve soil fertility management and agricultural productivity. These tools provide valuable additions to traditional approaches in research and...
    Sub-Saharan Sahel Fertilizer Soil Fertility Soil Management Agricultural Produ...