New Concepts and Approaches to Land Management in the Tropics with Emphasis on Steeplands

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dc.contributor.authorShaxson, F.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialTropicsen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:07:49Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:07:49Zen
dc.date.issued1999en
dc.description.abstractSmall farmers living on steeplands in the tropics comprise a large sector of the world population. They operate in subsistence agricultural systems using traditional technologies designed to achieve sustained crop production at very low yield and income levels. Thus, most steeplands have relatively stable, sustained production systems with minimum land degradation. However, there is growing awareness that sustainability of subsistence agriculture on steeplands is steadily deteriorating as a result of rapidly growing population and overexploitation of the land resource base. Given the various limitations affecting steeplands agriculture, few soil management and conservation options remain. This bulletin attempts to explore potential avenues for developing strategies to maintain sustainability of steeplands agriculture. To maintain sustainability, however, signficant improvements in crop production on steeplands must come from improved soil management practices focusing on soil and water conservation, improved crop management, and use of cropping systems designed to reduce soil erosion and maintain soil productivity.en
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dc.identifier316en
dc.identifier.citationFAO Soils Bulletin no. 75en
dc.identifier.isbn92-5-104319-1en
dc.identifier.other316_FAO_75_soil_management_on_steeplands.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65385en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherRome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsen
dc.relation.uriftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/agll/docs/sb75.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPlanningen
dc.subjectSoil degradationen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectLand use planningen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectFarmer to farmeren
dc.subjectSoilen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectAdoption of innovationsen
dc.subjectField Scaleen
dc.titleNew Concepts and Approaches to Land Management in the Tropics with Emphasis on Steeplandsen
dc.typeBooken
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