Resources Tagged: Dryland Farming

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  1. Introducing 100-Fold Gardens

    2019-07-24 Network member Lance Edwards works in Zimbabwe. He told us about using and promoting inexpensive, water-conserving planting beds that he calls 100-fold gardens. These are a type of “wicking bed”; they are lined with plastic so that water pools at the bottom in a reservoir. From there, water moves...
    100-Fold Gardens Dryland Farming Wick Irrigation

  2. TN #95 100-Fold Vegetable Gardens with Low-Cost Wicking Beds

    2019-07-23 I discovered 100-fold gardens while researching ways to irrigate plants directly in the root zone. I wanted to know how to practically and affordably control some of the variables that influence plant growth, such as water availability and soil fertility. I read about “wicking beds,” which are...
    Dryland Farming Wick Irrigation Low Maintenance ga... Garden structures ...

  3. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) - Drylands and pastoralism

    With research, training and advocacy, we help build climate resilience, productivity and equity in the dryland areas of East Africa, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan
    Dryland Farming Key Resource

  4. Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) - Baobab Magazine

    Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is an International NGO that facilitates information and knowledge exchange to and between extension workers or infomediaries and arid lands communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The information exchange activities focus on small-scale sustainable...
    Dryland Farming Key Resource

  5. International Crops Research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

    The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is an international non-profit organization that undertakes scientific research for development.
    Dryland Farming Key Resource Underutilized Crops

  6. Food from Dryland Gardens

    1991-02-01 Review by Dr. Martin Price Most publications review the most recent books. I have found that the most useful books are not necessarily the most recent-in fact, they are sometimes out of print. ECHO reprinted a few valuable but out-of-print books over the years (Edible Leaves of the Tropics;...
    Dryland Farming Vegetable Gardening

  7. Water Harvesting: Guidelines to good practice

    2013-01-01 This new publicationon “Water Harvesting – Guidelines to Good Practice”was mandated by IFAD, prepared byWOCATin collaboration with MetaMeta and RAIN and funded by SDC and IFAD. Water security is a prerequisite to achieve food security.Water harvestingoffers under-exploited opportunities for the...
    Water Security Water Harvesting Dryland Farming Water Supply Sand Dam Microcatchment Terraces Rainwater Harvesting

  8. La collecte de l’eau: Directives pour de bonnes pratiques

    2013-01-01 Ces directives donnent une vue d’ensemble des bonnes pratiques éprouvées de collecte de l’eau dans le monde entier. Celles-ci constituent un guide de référence pratique tout en offrant un support et une expertise technique spécifique pour l’intégration des technologies de collecte de l’eau dans...
    Water Security Water Harvesting Dryland Farming Water Supply Sand Dam Microcatchment Terraces Rainwater Harvesting

  9. Innovations for Food Security in Drylands Areas

    2015-02-04
    Dryland Farming

  10. 2016 ECHO International Agriculture Conference Topic Summaries

    2017-01-16 This article summarizes several of the plenary sessions presented at the 2016 ECHO conference in Florida. If you were unable to attend the conference, or would like to review some of the talks, many of them can be viewed on ECHOcommunity. Other 2016 presentations that appear there include...
    Biogas Agroforestry Linguistics Rainwater Harvesting Dryland Farming