Development and transfer of conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) for smallholder farms in eastern Uganda and western Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorNorton, James B.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialUgandaen
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:44Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:44Zen
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.description.abstractThis presentation provides an overview of a research proposal for the conservation agriculture production systems in Kenya and Uganda (LTRA-10). The researchers will be covering four sites in western Kenya and eastern Uganda, focusing on smallholder farms in the formerly colonial Mt. Elgon region in Kenya and Uganda and among more diverse farmers further to the south. Several key constraints to CA identified by the researchers are the emphasis on tilling the soil with a moldboard plow and the limited availability of raw materials to construct alternative implements as well as the heavy reliance on maize in the agricultural production systems across the sites. The project will seek to identify alternative cropping rotations as well as how to integrate livestock into the conservation agriculture production system.en
dc.description.notesLTRA-10 (CAPS for smallholder farms in eastern Uganda and western Kenya)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier4641en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the 2010 SANREM CRSP Kick-Off/Annual Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 6 May 2010en
dc.identifier.other4641_Norton_Development_and_Transfer_of_CA.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68884en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBlacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Techen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/AM2010/Home.phpen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSmall-scale farmingen
dc.subjectInstitutional capacity buildingen
dc.subjectConservation agricultureen
dc.subjectPlowingen
dc.subjectTillingen
dc.subjectCrop-livestock systemsen
dc.subjectMixed systemsen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Watersheden
dc.titleDevelopment and transfer of conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) for smallholder farms in eastern Uganda and western Kenyaen
dc.typePresentationen
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