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Conservation Agriculture in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Mulvaney, Michael J.; Reyes, Manuel R.; Chan-Halbrendt, Catherine; Boulakia, Stephane; Jumpa, K.; Sukvibool, C.; Sombatpanit, Samran (Bangkok, Thailand: Funny Publishing, 2012)

Conservation agriculture (CA) provides a tool with the potential for smallholder farmers to improve soil fertility and increase production. These proceedings, from the 2nd International Agriculture Workshop and Conference ...

Advancing global food security: The power of science, trade, and business

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Chicago, IL: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2013)

Increased demand for agricultural goods, climate change, and environmental degradation represent current challenges to global food security. This Chicago Council report addresses these hurdles through the perspective of ...

One Finger Cannot Lift a Rock: Facilitating Innovation Platforms to Trigger Institutional Change in West Africa

Nederlof, S.; Pyburn, R. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands:Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), 2012)

Smallholder African farmers, who produce most of the produce, tea, coffee, and other agricultural goods exported to Europe, are constrained by the institutional arrangements under which they operate. Institutional changes ...

Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World

Sumberg, J. (ed.); Thompson, J. (ed.) (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012)

Challenges to food security have renewed interest in agricultural research, in which agronomy is a core element. The editors of this book seek to contextualize the production, validation, communication and use of agronomic ...

A multiple source of innovation model of agricultural research and technology promotion

Biggs, S. (1990)

Agricultural research and technology diffusion represent a critical facet of development work. This article identifies and contrasts two models for understanding this process: The central model and the multiple source ...

Positive impacts in soil and water conservation in an Andean region of South America: Case scenarios from a US Agency for International Development multidisciplinary cooperative project

Monar, Carlos; Saavedra, Ana Karina; Escudero, Luis; Delgado, Jorge A.; Alwang, Jeffrey; Barrera, Victor H.; Botello, Rubén (2013)

The Andean region of South America faces many challenges to increasing agricultural productivity: shrinking farm sizes, poor soils, erratic rainfall, and very high erosion rates. This article summarizes the positive impacts ...

Do bacterial and fungal communities in soils of the Bolivian Altiplano change under shorter fallow periods?

Gomez-Montano, L.; Jumpponen, A.; Gonzales, Miguel Angel; Cusicanqui, J.; Valdivia, Corinne; Motavalli, Peter P.; Herman, M.; Garrett, Karen A. (2013)

Leaving fields fallow can improve soil fertility, but there is limited information on the effect of fallowing on soil microbiology. This article presents a study of soil fungal and bacterial properties in fallowed land in ...

Exporting conservation

LTRA-12 (Greensboro, NC: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 2012)

Soil degradation represents a major threat to food security, particularly in mountainous regions of Southeast Asia, where rainfall can wash away inches of topsoil. This article presents conservation agriculture as a potential ...

Technical note: A low-cost pressure regulator for improving the water distribution uniformity of a microtube-type drip irrigation system

Ella, Victor B.; Keller, J.; Reyes, Manuel R.; Yoder, R. (2013-07-24)

The use of low cost drip-irrigation systems represents a sustainable, practical and efficient water-saving and water-use technology; however, water distribution tends to be non-uniform, especially under steep slopes. This ...

Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Upland Livelihoods. Innovations for, with and by Farmers to Adapt to Local and Global Changes - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Conservation Agriculture in Southeast Asia

Pham, T. S. (ed.); Hauswirth, D. (ed.); Nicetic, O. (ed.); Tivet, F. (ed.); Le Quoc, D. (ed.); Van de Fliert, E. (ed.); Kirchhof, G. (ed.); Boulakia, S. (ed.); Chabierski, S. (ed.); Husson, O. (ed.); Chabanne, A. (ed.); Boyer, J. (ed.); Autfray, P. (ed.); Lienhard, P. (ed.); Legoupil, J.-C. (ed.); Stevens, M. L. (ed.) (CIRAD, NOMAFSI, University of Queensland, 2012)

Conservation agriculture, a system of reduced tillage, cover cropping, and intercropping, holds potential as a sustainable, resilient method of increasing yields while improving soil conditions. These proceedings Proceedings ...

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