Resources Tagged: Research

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  1. CIRAD

    The French agricultural research and international cooperation organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions. CIRAD has one main objective: to build sustainable farming systems capable of feeding ten billion human beings by 2050 while preserving the...
    Research

  2. Farmer Field School Trials of 2:4:2 Maize/Legume Intercropping

    2018-07-18 Farmers often struggle to maintain the productive capacity of their soils, especially where they lack enough land for a fallow (rest) period between crops. Leguminous green manure/cover crops (GMCCs) can help; in association with rhizobial bacteria, legumes convert nitrogen from the air into a...
    242 Intercropping ... Farmer Field Schools Research

  3. Low-Budget Research Ideas

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    2017-09-29 As an organization that equips people with informational resources to reduce hunger, ECHO values the role of science in validating agricultural practices. Over the years, we have received numerous inquiries from university faculty and students looking for ways to do research that benefits...
    Agricultural Exper... Experimentation Science Research

  4. Prospects for Sustaining Potato and Sweet Potato Cropping Systems in the Densely Populated Highlands of Southwest Uganda

    2000-01-01 Kabale District in the highlands of southwest Uganda provides an opportunity to examine the dynamic roles of potato and sweetpotato in an area of intensifying agricultural production in response to increasing population pressure and market demand. Based on field research conducted in three sites...
    Cropping Systems Research Sweet Potato Root Crops

  5. Variability in Rangeland Water Erosion Processes

    1994-01-01 Papers from the November 1992 symposium identify climatic, soil, and biological parameters that control water erosion processes, and summarize current research in the field of erosion modeling for rangeland conditions. They covers topics such as predicting disposition of eroded sediments within a...
    Research Soil Erosion Soil Erosion Predi... Rangelands

  6. Annona Species

    2005-01-01 This is a reference text bringing together available information on five Annona species, with the aim of identifying gaps in knowledge and thus research needs. With an accompanying extention manual, this will provide opportunities for noth resources-poor as well as small-scale commercial farmers...
    Monographs Agricultural Exten... Research Citrus Annonas

  7. Sweet Potato Production in Oxisols Under a High Level of Technology

    1977-07-01 15 pages
    Sweet Potato Research

  8. Tropical Fruit Production and Research: Climate Classification and Use

    2008-06-10 This publication offers scientists, graduate students, extension faculty, and other professionals an opportunity to increase their knowledge of tropical fruit crop horticulture, production, and plant physiology. 3 copies 267 pages, illustrated, PowerPoint slides
    Fruit Production Research Tropical Fruit

  9. Preparing The Research Paper (4th ed.)

    1983-01-01 Contents include: The research paper defined, bibliography, note taking, writing, direct quotations, footnotes. 28 pages
    Academic writing Research

  10. The Global Research Agenda: A South-North Perspective

    1990-01-01 North and South are becoming more aware of how they are inseparately linked and of an increasing stifling physical and social environment marked by the greenhouse effect, an unstable climate, extreme overpopulation, the worldwide AIDS epidemic, debt, drugs, and war. The IDRC has been forging...
    Environmental Stew... International Coop... Research International Deve...