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Agriculture, energy and sustainability : case studies of a local farming community in Sweden /Jansén, Jan, January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.
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The farmer - dominant study group : a practical paradigm in international extension strategyWibberley, E. John January 1992 (has links)
No description available.
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A study of two cropping systems in western Ngamiland, Botswana, through the application of the farming systems research methodolgyJones, R. B. January 1988 (has links)
No description available.
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Land degradation and local management strategies in hillside agriculture : a Jamaican case studyEdwards, Rebecca Jane January 1999 (has links)
No description available.
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Soil conservation for sustainable land use : a decision-support model for the Loess Plateau, ChinaLu, Yuelai January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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Factors influencing mother-young ineractions in intensive pig production systemsWeng, Ruey-Chee January 2000 (has links)
No description available.
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Exploring characteristics of farming systems in former labour tenant communities: the case of Ncunjane and Nkaseni in MsingaMthembu, Nonhlanzeko Nonkumbulo January 2013 (has links)
Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / In this mini-thesis I explore the key characteristics of the farming household and the
livelihood strategies they employ with particular reference to their farming systems. The
study sought to determined the contribution made by agriculture to the total household
income, as a means to justify for promoting booth subsistence and smallholder production as
a policy direction.
I established that rural households who are former labour tenants engage in both on and off
farm income generating activities as a response to capital and labour accessibility. A fairly
moderate contribution was made from cash cropping; however, I argue that the value could
be much higher if considering high proportion of produce is for home consumption. There is
a pattern where subsistence production intensifies to smallholder production with
accessibility to water, high potential land and markets. I also found cattle herd sizes to be
highly variable amongst households and goat production being correlated with a pattern of
feminisation in agriculture. I give evidence that calls into doubt common claims of land
degradation and instead call for more clearly defined communal range land management
research.
I then argue that farming systems are driven and adapted to farmer‟s non-static objectives and
subsequent opportunistic strategies employed. This mini thesis concludes that with realistic
comprehensive support to small scale agriculture there is potential for petty commodity
production which will stimulate rural economies.
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Livestock production in Guinea-Bissau : development potentials and constraintsGoncalves, Vitor Salvador Picoa January 1995 (has links)
No description available.
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Economic evaluation of the role of livestock in mixed smallholder farms of the central highlands of KenyaMurithi, Festus Meme January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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A conservation framework for Australian development assistance projectsBrown, W. S., n/a January 1986 (has links)
1. It is now generally accepted that conservation is an important
consideration for developing countries. (l. 1 & 1.2)
2. This has been made clear in the World Conservation Strategy, published
in 1980, which sets out the essential link between conservation and
development. Three conservation objectives are identified:
- Maintenance of essential ecological processes
- Preservation of genetic diversity
- Ensuring sustainable utilisation of species and ecosystems (1.3)
3. Foreign aid donors have recognised the importance of conservation
considerations in their aid programs. The World Bank has had an environmental
program since 1970 and USAID since 1975. The emphasis has shifted
from the environmental impact of projects towards projects intended to bring
conservation benefits. Interest has recently been directed toward biological
diversity and wildlands. (1.4)
4. Although Australia has significant expertise in conservation, only in
the last couple of years has interest in the conservation aspects of
Australia's development assistance program been expressed. Australian
support for the World conservation Strategy indicates that conservation
concerns should be included in the aid program. (1.5)
5. Conservation and environmental assessment should be an integral part of
the processes of project appraisal and evaluation. The techniques used in
appraisal and evaluation such as the logical framework and cost benefit
analysis can be linked to environmental assessment, (chapter 2)
6. Many environmental guidelines are available, however these should not
be used directly for project appraisal and evaluation but rather to assist
in the preparation of project specific terms of reference. (2.6)
The intensification of some farming systems damages the ecological
processes on which they depend and hence reduces productivity. Other farming
systems can be intensified without ecological damage. The challenge is to
ensure that when farming is to be intensified it can be done without adverse
ecological consequences. (3.1, 3.2)
8. Constraints on the adoption of sustainable farming systems include the
perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of the society affected, economic
limitations and problems of land tenure. (3.3)
9. Foreign aid donors can make a contribution towards establishing
sustainable farming systems but past project designs have often not been
well suited to conservation. (3.4)
10. Projects can be developed with conservation goals which will conserve
the land, improve subsistence farming and assist with economic production.
There are three stages in these projects:
- Identify the causes of land degradation and the constraints to
countering them.
- Develop and demonstrate appropriate farming systems
- Extension (3.5)
11. A project is likely to have a greater impact if it leads to the
adoption of appropriate conservation techniques over a region than if it
intensively improves a restricted project area. A project must therefore
seek to develop techniques which will be adopted without subsidy. (3.4, 3.5)
12. The Australian projects in northern Thailand have successfully
demonstrated farming systems which would reduce erosion but these have yet
to be adopted on a significant scale by the population in the region. (4.2)
13. The NTT Livestock Development Project in Timor has not yet had
sufficient time to demonstrate suitable farming systems but it is expected
that such systems can be developed. (4.3)
14. In Sikka, Flores, Indonesia, the widespread planting of contour hedgerows
of leucaena has brought substantial conservation benefits. The key
factors in the adoption of this practice appear to have been that the
technique was readily undertaken by fanners, it increases crop yields and
that there was strong support from the local administration. (4.3)
15. It should be possible to introduce conservation farming systems to a
region in a period of about ten years. If success is to be achieved it is
essential that practices be capable of being adopted without subsidy, that
the introduction get strong support from the local administration and that
there be a vigorous extension campaign.
16. It is recommended that:
- Australia should have an explicit policy on conservation and
development assistance based on our commitment to the World
Conservation Strategy. (5.l)
- ADAB should have its focus of conservation within the appraisals
and evaluations area.(5.2)
ADAB should incorporate conservation considerations throughout the
project cycle. (5.3)
- The cost benefit guidelines provided by ADAB should be amended to
include conservation considerations. (5.4)
- ADAB should support and encourage conservation projects and should
seek to develop projects which will have a conservation impact
throughout the relevant region. (5.5)
- ADAB should cooperate with other agencies in its activities on
conservation and development. In particular we should play an active
role in OECD activities relating to environment and development. (5.6)
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