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IDE low-cost drip irrigation for vegetable production: A farmer's guide
(Taiwan: AVRDC- The World Vegetable Center, 2007)This presentation focused on the International Development Enterprise low cost drip kits and its application on vegetable production. -
Identification of factors hampering women empowerment in agriculture decision making and extension work in District Okara, Punjab, Pakistan
(Department of Livestock Management, 2009)In this article the authors endeavor to highlight the constraints facing rural women in the Okara District of Punjab, Pakistan in making decisions pertaining to agriculture and to suggest how to empower rural women to ... -
Identification of potential locations for environmental service payment in the Northern Andes
(2007-06-19)The North Andean Corridor has suffered some of the highest levels of fragmentation in the Andes. As a result, Conservation International undertook a project to examine using payments for environmental services as a tool ... -
Identifying and classifying local indicators of soil quality
(International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2001)The increasing interest in local soil knowledge is largely due to the realization that farmer communities that have been interacting with their soils for a long time can provide many insights into the sustainable management ... -
Identifying indicators of community sustainability in the Robson Valley, British Columbia
(Kamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnership, 2004)This paper outlines a method of developing indicators of well-being in small, forest-based communities. It also describes some specific measures of well-being in a particular forest-based community in the Robson Valley ... -
If not us, then who? Social dimensions of community-based environment initiatives
(Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2000-12)By the 1980s, the escalating environmental problems of Asia's megacities had become all too evident. Smoke-filled air, littered streets and polluted waterways were common features of urban centers, and such problems were ... -
Ikalahan people document and quantify provision of environmental services from forest management systems to solicit local and global service buyers
(2006-10-23)The Ikalahan Ancestral Domain covers 58,000 ha of mountainous forest and farmlands and provides water for the cities and irrigation systems below. There are many endangered bird species present which need protection. RUPES ... -
Il Ngwesi group ranch and partnership
(2007-06-29)Community-owned and managed, this growing enterprise on the slopes of Mount Kenya, on the northwest edge of the Lewa Nature Conservancy, combines local knowledge, business, and nature. Il Ngwesi Lodge - small but successful ... -
Illegal deforestation in Zambia
(2005)Dr. Dale Lewis, a co-PI on the grant and the originator of the COMACO model, points out recent illegal deforestation in one of Zambia's National Forests to Dr. Alfonso Torres, another co-PI on the grant (from Cornell). -
Images of community: Discourse and strategy in property relations
(Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996)It is argued that divergent images of community result not from inadequate knowledge or confusion of purpose, but from the location of discourse and action in the context of specific struggles and dilemmas. The study ... -
Impact and implications of price policy and land degradation on agricultural growth in developing countries
(1991)In many developing countries, a high proportion of the population resides and works in rural areas. Agriculture is the dominant sector in rural areas and has the greatest concentration of poverty: landless workers, small ... -
Impact assessment of SANREM's training program on Participatory Landscape-Lifescape Appraisal (PLLA) for community based resource management in the municipalitities of Lantapan and Valencia, Bukidnon
(2004)In this presentation the authors' objectives are: to describe the training inputs: trainee characteristics, and trainee assessment of human resource capabilities and the training course design; to determine the relationship ... -
Impact evaluation of PES programs
(Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2007)PES has many attractive characteristics relative to other conservation approaches provided that transaction costs are low and other favorable conditions apply (see sections 2 and 3 of this Sourcebook). However, ascertaining ... -
Impact methods to predict and assess contributions of technology (IMPACT): Final report
(College Station, Tex.: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Impact Assessment Group, 2000)This report covers research done for the USAID Office of Agriculture and Food Security of the Center for Economic Growth and Agriculture (Global Bureau). The overall objective was to develop and evaluate methods to assess ... -
Impact of application of endophytic Bacillus spp. for biocontrol of cacao diseases on native microbial communities
(2009)"Interest in ecologically-based management of cacao diseases has lead to research on biocontrol. Sixty-nine endophytic Bacillus spp. were isolated from cacao trees escaping disease near Quevedo, Ecuador and screened as ... -
Impact of conservation tillage on soil quality under smallholder farming systems in eastern Uganda and western Kenya
(2014)This poster presents a study to evaluate the impact oftillage: conventional tillage (CT), minimum tillage (MT) and notill(NT) combined with 3 cropping systems: intercrop, relay andstrip system on: (i.) Total and labile SOC ... -
Impact of contour hedgerows on upland maize yields in the Philippines
(Berlin, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 1998)This paper investigates the impact of contour hedgerows on maize yields. The author applies and agricultural production function to assess data from upland Philippine maize farms and hedgerows of double rows of the ... -
Impact of Maize-based conservation agriculture system on soil properties in North Central Plateau Zone of Odisha
(Bhubaneswar, India: Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), 2012)The North Central Plateau zone of Odisha has an undulating topography and under high rainfall zone of the state. The soils of this area are subjected to various kinds of soil degradation. The farmers of this zone are ... -
Impact of native vegetation retention on ecosystem services in Brisbane River catchment
(2006-10-10)This case study will examine the economic tradeoffs involved between implementing pollution mitigation strategies on farmland and the treatment costs for downstream consumers. As a result, minimum value estimate of the ... -
Impact of no-till technologies in Ghana
(Mexico, D.F. Mexico: CIMMYT, 2002)No-till with mulch was introduced in Ghana in the 1990s, and the package specifically responded to the needs of small-scale farmers. In 2000, it is estimated that 100,000 small-scale Ghana farmers practiced no-till on ...
