Strategies For Improving Small Farmer Development In The Tropics Proceedings
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Author | : John A. Dixon |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789251046272 |
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author | : Jules N. Pretty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136529276 |
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, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Shaun Ferris |
Publisher | : Catholic Relief Services |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2006-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1614920028 |
This publication is a product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. A Market Facilitator's Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the "enabling rural innovation" approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower farmer groups with the necessary skills to make informed decisions for their economic development, based on an analysis of their surroundings, assets and skills. The methodology also aims for outcomes that are equitable, gender focused and participatory.
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018-08-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9251095027 |
This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and six national teams, each of which prepared a national report. In the six countries under review in the NENA region (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia), agriculture is carried out primarily by small-scale family farmers, the majority of whom run the risk of falling into the poverty trap, largely due to the continuous fragmentation of inherited landholdings. As such, the development of small-scale family farming can no longer be based solely on intensifying agriculture, as the farmers are not able to produce sufficient marketable surplus due to the limited size of their landholdings. An approach based strictly on agricultural activity is also insufficient (as small-scale family farms have already diversified their livelihoods with off-farm activities). In fact, developing small-scale farming cannot be achieved by focusing strictly on t he dimension of production.
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Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : United States. National Technical Information Service |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Technology |
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Author | : Anggoro Cahyo Sukartiko |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319975536 |
This book covers the sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical animal production and health, sustainable tropical forestry, socio-economic dimension in tropical agriculture and innovative and emerging food technology and management as chapters in this book. The common challenging problems in plant, animal, and fisheries production in the tropic are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases.
Author | : Ecoregional Program for the Humid and SubHumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Workshop |
Publisher | : IITA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Agricultural systems |
ISBN | : 9781311851 |
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2018-06-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9251068712 |
The book offers a rich toolkit of relevant, adoptable ecosystem-based practices that can help the world's 500 million smallholder farm families achieve higher productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency while enhancing natural capital.