Author: Martin Ruppenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Soil Conservation in Andean Cropping Systems
Author: Martin Ruppenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Erosion in Andean Hillside Farming
Author: Ludger Reining
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A New Soil Conservation Methodology and Application to Cropping Systems in Tropical Steeplands
Author: Keppel J. Coughlan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cropping systems
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cropping systems
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Cropping System Effects on Soil Erosion and Productivity of Food and Forage Crops in Tropical Andean Hillside Farming
Author: Wolfgang Felske
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783861863472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783861863472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation
Author: Khan Towhid Osman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400775903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded soils. Soil conservation measures, including soil amendments, decompaction, mulching, cover cropping, crop rotation, green manuring, contour farming, strip cropping, alley cropping, surface roughening, windbreaks, terracing, sloping agricultural land technology (SALT), dune stabilization, etc., are discussed. Particular emphasis is given to soil pollution and the methods of physical, chemical and biological remediation of polluted soils. This book will lead the reader from the basics to a comprehensive understanding of soil degradation, conservation and remediation.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400775903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded soils. Soil conservation measures, including soil amendments, decompaction, mulching, cover cropping, crop rotation, green manuring, contour farming, strip cropping, alley cropping, surface roughening, windbreaks, terracing, sloping agricultural land technology (SALT), dune stabilization, etc., are discussed. Particular emphasis is given to soil pollution and the methods of physical, chemical and biological remediation of polluted soils. This book will lead the reader from the basics to a comprehensive understanding of soil degradation, conservation and remediation.
Resource Management in the Ecuadorian Andes: An Evaluation of CARE's PROMUSTA Program
Author:
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
In recent years, development organizations have spent substantial resources on programs to reduce the problems associated with soil erosion. Many programs have focused on the use of incentives to induce conservation and have maintained a top-down approach to conservation. Quite often this is ineffective and farmers abandon conservation measures once incentives are withdrawn. In Ecuador, CARE International has offered an alternative approach that embeds conservation in the agricultural system. By offering agricultural diversification and intensification with a complementary program that enhances short-term benefits of conservation, CARE induces farmers to maintain sustainable practices. Using data from a sample of participant and non-participant Ecuadorian households, we show the success of the CARE approach. Participants in the CARE program are found to have high rates of adoption of conservation practices and to simultaneously change their agricultural system. Results indicate that with a strong extension service and a menu of adaptable technologies, conservation is enhanced when presented with complementary changes in agriculture.
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
In recent years, development organizations have spent substantial resources on programs to reduce the problems associated with soil erosion. Many programs have focused on the use of incentives to induce conservation and have maintained a top-down approach to conservation. Quite often this is ineffective and farmers abandon conservation measures once incentives are withdrawn. In Ecuador, CARE International has offered an alternative approach that embeds conservation in the agricultural system. By offering agricultural diversification and intensification with a complementary program that enhances short-term benefits of conservation, CARE induces farmers to maintain sustainable practices. Using data from a sample of participant and non-participant Ecuadorian households, we show the success of the CARE approach. Participants in the CARE program are found to have high rates of adoption of conservation practices and to simultaneously change their agricultural system. Results indicate that with a strong extension service and a menu of adaptable technologies, conservation is enhanced when presented with complementary changes in agriculture.
Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture
Author: Charles C. Crissman
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9780792380573
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. The key to designing sustainable agricultural production technologies is in understanding their economic, environmental, and human health impacts. This volume presents a methodology designed to quantify such impacts and to represent them as tradeoffs. This tradeoff methodology is proposed as an approach to accomplish two essential elements in achieving agricultural sustainability. First, the tradeoffs method is a key to the design of successful interdisciplinary research projects for assessing sustainability of production systems. Second, the tradeoffs method provides a successful means of communicating research findings to policy makers and the public.
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9780792380573
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. The key to designing sustainable agricultural production technologies is in understanding their economic, environmental, and human health impacts. This volume presents a methodology designed to quantify such impacts and to represent them as tradeoffs. This tradeoff methodology is proposed as an approach to accomplish two essential elements in achieving agricultural sustainability. First, the tradeoffs method is a key to the design of successful interdisciplinary research projects for assessing sustainability of production systems. Second, the tradeoffs method provides a successful means of communicating research findings to policy makers and the public.
A New Soil Conservation Methodology and Application to Cropping Systems in Tropical Steeplands
Author: Keppel J. Coughlan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cropping systems
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cropping systems
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The Andean World
Author: Linda J. Seligmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317220773
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317220773
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.
Systems and Farmer Participatory Research
Author: Sam Fujisaka
Publisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9586940098
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Toward a new institutional model of farmer participation in research on natural resource management and germplasm improvement; Developing a natural resource management technology for a specific agroenvironment: Mucuna-maize rotation on the hillsides of northern honduras; Land use systems and dynamics in Pucallpa, Peru; Strategic systems research for the Latin American Savannas; Developing improved pasture systems for forest margins; Adapting participatory research methods for developing integrated crop management for cassava-based systems Northeast Brazil; Soil conservation strategies that take into account farmer perspectives; Developing sustainable cassava production systems with farmers in Asia; Developing forage tecnologies with smallholders in East Kalimantan, Indonesia; Farmer's independent experimentation with green manure and/or cover crops: A component of participatory research for improving Ugandan Farming Systems; Designing sustainable, commercial, farmer seed production systems in Africa: Case studies From Uganda; Institucional Innovation as an entry for system-level technological change; Participatory sysems research toward the future.
Publisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9586940098
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Toward a new institutional model of farmer participation in research on natural resource management and germplasm improvement; Developing a natural resource management technology for a specific agroenvironment: Mucuna-maize rotation on the hillsides of northern honduras; Land use systems and dynamics in Pucallpa, Peru; Strategic systems research for the Latin American Savannas; Developing improved pasture systems for forest margins; Adapting participatory research methods for developing integrated crop management for cassava-based systems Northeast Brazil; Soil conservation strategies that take into account farmer perspectives; Developing sustainable cassava production systems with farmers in Asia; Developing forage tecnologies with smallholders in East Kalimantan, Indonesia; Farmer's independent experimentation with green manure and/or cover crops: A component of participatory research for improving Ugandan Farming Systems; Designing sustainable, commercial, farmer seed production systems in Africa: Case studies From Uganda; Institucional Innovation as an entry for system-level technological change; Participatory sysems research toward the future.