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

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dc.contributor.authorMonar, Carlosen
dc.contributor.authorSaavedra, Ana Karinaen
dc.contributor.authorEscudero, Luis O.en
dc.contributor.authorDelgado, Jorge A.en
dc.contributor.authorAlwang, Jeffrey R.en
dc.contributor.authorBarrera, Victor H.en
dc.contributor.authorBotello, Rubén C.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialIllangama Watersheden
dc.coverage.spatialEcuadoren
dc.coverage.spatialBoliviaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:30:24Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:30:24Zen
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe 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 of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program’s (SANREM CRSP) promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) in the region. SANREM emphasizes thorough and holistic evaluation of the impacts of CA, and active participation of local farmers. Farmer field schools in the Illangama watershed in Ecuador proved an effective means of encouraging CA adoption by demonstrating its positive effects. Other positive impacts are listed, emphasizing the increases in yields and economically beneficial diversification. A need for new, bilingual tools to assess the impacts of CA is identified; the article presents the adaption of the Mexican Nitrogen index for Ecuador and Bolivia as a successful example of tool development. The strong international cooperation for this project has provided an illustration of the positive results of soil and water conservation practices that will assist in addressing the environmental challenges and constraints of the twenty-first century.en
dc.description.notesLTRA-7 (Pathways to CAPS in the Andes)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier7089en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Soil and Water Conservation. 68(1):25A-30Aen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70171en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jswconline.org/content/68/1/25A.full.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2013 by The Soil and Water Conservation Society. All rights reserveden
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectConservation agricultureen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectSoil conservationen
dc.subjectGreen manure cropsen
dc.subjectSoil managementen
dc.subjectSmall-scale farmingen
dc.subjectSustainable agricultureen
dc.subjectConservation tillageen
dc.subjectNitrogen indexen
dc.subjectAndean regionen
dc.subjectPotato farmingen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titlePositive impacts in soil and water conservation in an Andean region of South America: Case scenarios from a US Agency for International Development multidisciplinary cooperative projecten
dc.typeAbstracten
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