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Resources Tagged: Agricultural System

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  1. Risk Aversion and Diversification

    2014-04-20 Harry van den Burg wrote in response to theEDN 121 articleabout: …the extent to which risk aversion may have been and even is overestimated, at the expense of hunger and exhaustion, as a leading limiting factor on agricultural productivity. “Whereas I certainly think that the argument has merit…I...
    Risk Aversion Smallholder Agricultural System Subsistence Farming Diversification Rain-fed Agriculture

  2. Sequel to Amaranth to Zai Holes

    2012-04-20 Many of you are already familiar withECHO’s previously published book,Amaranth to Zai Holes (A-Z ), acompilation of the first 51 issues ofEDN . Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmersis a sequel to A-Z , with contentdrawn primarily from issues 52 through100 of EDN , but also containing...
    Agricultural Devel... Tropics Sub-Tropics Smallholder Farm Urban Gardening Agricultural System Poverty Subsistence Farming

  3. East Africa’s Drought: Q and A

    2011-10-20 World Vision (WV) Australia is involved in both agricultural development and relief work in East Africa. We asked folks there to answer a few questions regarding the current drought and famine. In what ways have you been involved with addressing the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa? Could...
    Agricultural Devel... Drought Agroforestry FMNR Conservation Agric... Agricultural System Famine Sustainable Develo... Sustainable Agricu... Acacia

  4. Guidelines for the Analysis of Post-production Systems

    2000-04-01 This book is addressed to decision-makers in governments in the hope that it may help them to optimise their agricultural, food and post-production policies and strategies. The book should enable planners and practitioners at all levels of post-production intervention to obtain a deeper...
    Agricultural System

  5. The agricultural systems of the world: An evolutionary approach

    1974-01-01 358 pages, illustrated Cambridge Geographical Studies
    Agricultural System

  6. Sustainable Intensification: Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems

    2011-01-01 Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa,...
    Sustainable Intens... Africa Food Security Agricultural System

  7. Advances in East Asian Agricultural Origins Studies: The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition

    2022-01-01 Scientific understanding about domestication and the origins of food production in East Asia is undergoing rapid change based on new data from archaeology, paleobiology, and paleoenvironmental studies. The earliest agricultural and pastoral societies emerged from the highly diverse habitats and...
    East Asia Asia Agricultural System Origin Studies MDPI Open Access Books Downloads

  8. Integrated Diagnostics to Evaluate and Analyze Agrosystems

    1980-01-01 *Available only in Spanish. This approach starts from the study of agricultural systems that farmers are currently using, this new strategy requires a different type of diagnosis than the traditional way. The methodology presented here corresponds to a first approximation of the definitive...
    Agricultural System Farmers Agroecology Spanish Language