Author: Hans BebaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mound Cultivation
Author: Hans BebaSoil Management
Author: H. W. DalzellPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251025536
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A manual on compost making. Described are: principles of composting, materials for composting, practical composting processes, uses of composts, environmental aspects, economic and social aspects, education and training of farmers and extension workers
The Mound-Builders
Author: H. C. ShetronePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States
Sustaining the Soil
Author: Chris ReijPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134175868
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions. But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned, by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers' practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances. Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the book explores the various factors that influence adoption and adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa, involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which makes the most of both the new and the old.
Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics
Author: Albert O. AwetoPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1780640439
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas.
From Land to Mouth
Author: Paul SillitoePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship.
Rethinking Agriculture
Author: Timothy P DenhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315421003
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its “own terms” has long been recognized and re-affirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence and methods derived from Eurasian research. However, researchers working in different regions are becoming increasingly aware of fundamental differences in the nature of, and methods employed to study, agriculture and plant exploitation practices in the past. Contributions to this volume rethink agriculture, whether in terms of existing regional chronologies, in terms of techniques employed, or in terms of the concepts that frame our interpretations. This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.
Tropical Root and Tuber Crops
Author: I. C. OnwuemePublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034613
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Wisconsin Archeologist
Author: Fire in Relation to Primitive Agriculture and Grazing in the Tropics: A-G, Tropics in general; H-J, South Asia and Oceania
Author: Harley Harris BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burning of land
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description