Resources Tagged: Sustainable Agriculture Development
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2018-01-20 “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon...
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2018-01-01 Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and...
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Having established the central concepts of farmers' research, this book examines farmers' innovation through 17 wide-ranging case studies from around the world. It concludes by revisiting the major themes in relation to the lessons learned, and sets out the future issues and challenges for...
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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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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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2015-01-01 At present, a grave concern facing the Caribbean is the creation of sustainable food production systems. Over the past four decades, the increasing unsustainable use of agricultural inputs has become very evident in the farming sector, without much warnings being given about the adverse health...
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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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Presenters and participants gathered from all over the world in order to address the present-day soil challenges and collectively share comprehensive solutions to take home to their very diverse communities. The presenters ranged from highly trained scientists to a South American rural priest who...
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This study examined paired plots of farmland that were selected for their similarities in nearly every respect. They shared the same topography, angle of slope, location on the watershed, intensity of the storm, type of crops, etc. The only variation was that one was agroecologically farmed and...
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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.