Resources Tagged: Sustainable Agriculture Development
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2002-01-01 This book includes question and answers on how to improve and maintain tropical soil fertility. It also includes activity guides and a resource listing.
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1999-09-01 The Case Studies of ILEIA in Leusden, the Netherlands and ECHO in Ft. Myers, USA 63 pages, plus appendices, illustrated, photos
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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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1992-01-01 The purpose of the study is to recommend a strategy and program actions that will enable animal agriculture to contribute to the optimization of food production and human development in sub-Saharan Africa on an equitable, sustainable, and environmentally sound basis. The prospective users of this...
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2021-09-28
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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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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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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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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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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...