1. Ressource principale To re-establish food production and create a farming system that provides for better food security and assurances for sustained production and income, the FAO aims to build upon its experiences over the past years in their DRR/M programmes and to provide practical guidance in the introduction of...
  2. GrowerTalks magazinemay be the best-known greenhouse trade publication in the world. While it’s published in America’s Midwest, just outside of Chicago, its reach and influence is global, with its editors historically on the road and in the air to find the stories, trends and news. Format:...
  3. AccessAgriculture Training Video Avec l’irrigation par jarre, des pots en argile cuite poreux sont enterrés dans le sol près de la culture et remplis d’eau. L’eau s’écoule lentement à travers les parois poreuses du pot et atteint les racines des plantes. Au fur et à mesure que les plantes...
  4. Create an Oasis with Greywaterdescribes how to choose, build, and use twenty different types of greywater systems. Topics include: Why to use or not use greywater, health guidelines, greywater sources, irrigation requirements, 20 system examples and selection chart, biocompatible cleaners,...
  5. 01/01/2002 The flux of vapor from soil to seed has been greatly underestimated and probably contributes most of the water imbibed by seed in soils below field capacity. Vapor may also play a greater role than previously thought in root water uptake, wetting fronts, and other cases of water movement in mixed...
  6. 01/01/1979 This publication aims to describe the special requirements of soil survey for irrigation development, and assumes that the reader is familiar with basic soil science and soil survey techniques. It does not deal with other aspects of soil studies such as soil conservation or soil fertility...
  7. 01/06/1981 Presented in this paper are a synthesis of technical literature, field visitation and technical review.
  8. This excellent, clearly illustrated book has been written for those working with farmers on development and extension in rural areas who do not have much access to the technical know-how needed for developing irrigatedagriculture on a small scale.
  9. Keyline methods enable the rapid development of deep biologically fertile soil by converting subsoil into living topsoil. Keyline pattern cultivation enables the rapid flood irrigation of undulating land without terracing. Incidental results are the healing of soil erosion, bio-adsorption of...
  10. This publication was intended to serve as an on-farm irrigation and water management guide book for farmers as well as irrigation extension personnel. To meet this objective it was written a simple form with many illustrations, tables and field examples. It is hoped that this publication will...