1. in 1954 the United States government's International Cooperation Administration (now called the Agency for Inernational Development) sponsored a technical assistance contract of six years between the University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Costa Rican Ministry of...
  2. 1981-05-01 The organization and operation of an emerging new model for agricultural research and development are described in this monograph. 111 pages, tables
  3. 6 lessons on crop training Peace Corps Training Center Contains sections with different page numbering
  4. See also: Readings in Farming Systems Research and Development. Edited by W. W. Shaner; P. F. Philipp; W. R. Schmehl. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1981. A Consortium for International Development Study 630 SHA in ECHO library
  5. This publication reports on a short training class that was help in Dumardaga, India.The course started with an introduction on the conceptual aspects of what sustainable agriculture and organic methods are. How to go about selecting crops, seeds, preparing the field, nutrient cycling and pest...
  6. 1978-01-01 Wortman and Cummings forcefully arque that affluent nations must make their financial and technical resources more readily available to the developing world, and in ways that contribute much more effectively to rapid increases in output and to wide-spread improvements in the purchasing power of...
  7. This booklet surveys some of that collaboration and tell what FAO is doing to embody the WCARRD principles in its own work. It discusses tools for guilding and measuring progress in agrarian reform and rural developmently, collaboration among agencies and countries; and most importantly,...
  8. The primary purpose of this report is to provide infromation on what can be done to increase the well-being and productivity of the small farmer in the Third World. Particular attention is given to what, operationally, AID might contribue to the attainment of these objectives; this requires a...
  9. This book presents a synthesis of three decades of work with smallholder producers and their communities. It takes the farming systems work of the 1990s a step further, and pays particular attention to those factors and issues that have proven to constrain agricultural development in developing...