Reconstructing agricultural production for food security in Haiti
This presentation describes the diminishing agricultural productivity in Haiti and argues that it will take a serious, long-term effort to achieve sustainable food security in Haiti. […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): K.M. Moore
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Food Security
Developing sustainable conservation agriculture systems for smallholders in Southern Africa: Lesotho & Mozambique
This presentation presents the research proposal for developing conservation agriculture (CA) systems in southern Africa (LTRA-9). In the two countries of Lesotho and Mozambique, food security […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): N. Eash
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Development and transfer of conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) for smallholder farms in eastern Uganda and western Kenya
This 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 […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): J. Norton
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
From technology transfer to adaptive management: Knowledge networks for technological change in agriculture
In studying agricultural development, we are interested in the characteristics of local contexts which enable or prevent technological change. Network theory and literature from social construction […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): J.N. Lamb; K.M. Moore
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
Technology networks
This presentation describes the Technology Networks Cross Cutting Research Activity (CCRA-8) and the baseline survey module to be incorporated by the LTRA teams. The Technology Networks […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): K.M. Moore; J.N. Lamb
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
Can conservation agriculture improve soil quality and sequester carbon in the short term for dryland smallholders in the developing world?
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (SANREM) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) seeks to determine the effects of […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): M.J. Mulvaney
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Can conservation agriculture improve soil quality and sequester carbon in the short term for dryland smallholders in the developing world?
This article provides an Overview of the Soils Cross-Cutting Research Activity (CCRA) within the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP). […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): M.J. Mulvaney
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Carbon and nitrogen mineralization and persistence of organic residues under conservation and conventional tillage
Combining high biomass cover crops with in situ organic mulches may achieve adequate weed control for no-till production, but the persistence and nutrient release rates from […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): M.J. Mulvaney; C.W. Wood; K.S. Balkcom; D.A. Shannon; J.M. Kemble
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Effects of high biomass cover crops and organic mulches on soil properties and collard yield three years after conversion to no-till
Powerpoint presentation.
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): C.W. Wood; D. Shannon; K. Balkcom; B.H. Wood; J.M. Kemble
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Soil quality and carbon sequestration
The presentation proposes the collection of a minimum dataset in order to compare soil quality improvements from conservation agriculture across the sites in the Soil Quality […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): M. Mulvaney
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management