The impact of adoption of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ food security in semi-arid zones of southern Africa [PDF]
, 1973 BACKGROUND In southern Africa, conservation agriculture (CA) has received a lot of research and promotional support from various organizations in the past decades.
ST Kandji +24 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2012 The paper aimed at making a comparison between conservation agriculture and conventional agriculture on wheat yield, in a three crop rotation (wheat, maize and soybean) system.
Mircea Adrian GRIGORAS +4 more
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How did conservation agriculture go to scale?
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2022 Background: The Foodgrains Bank has an established record working in agriculture and food security with resource constrained, marginalized farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ricardo Ramirez +2 more
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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Farming Systems [PDF]
, 2012 Organic agriculture and food markets have grown considerably, and organic agriculture addresses important challenges of European agriculture, such as the sustainable production of high-quality food, reducing dependency on high energy inputs, improving ...
Bertelsen, Ulla Sonne, Halberg, Niels
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Conservation agriculture in the dry Mediterranean climate [PDF]
, 2012 The objective of this article is to review: (a) the concepts and principles that underpin Conservation Agriculture (CA) ecologically and operationally; (b) the potential benefits that can be harnessed through CA systems in the dry Mediterranean climates;
Basch, G. +7 more
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Making Sustainable Agriculture Real in CAP 2020: The Role of Conservation Agriculture [PDF]
, 2012 Europe is about to redefine its Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) for the near future. The question is whether this redefinition is more a fine-tuning of the existing CAP or whether thorough changes can be expected. Looking back to the last revision of CAP
Basch, G. +3 more
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Weed Management in the Transition to Conservation Agriculture: Farmers’ Response
Agronomy, 2020 Recently adopted in France, conservation agriculture still faces some challenges to its adoption, particularly weed management. To highlight the weed management practices used by farmers in conservation agriculture and the changes induced by its adoption,
Damien Derrouch +3 more
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Environmental Deterioration and Conservation in Cuban Agriculture
EDIS, 2004 The reports included in this series intend to address the increasing level of interest in the Cuban market for food and agricultural products among U.S. firms and to assist them in becoming more familiar with that market.
José Alvarez
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AGRICULTURA CONVENȚIONALĂ VERSUS AGRICULTURA CONSERVATIVĂ: DIFERENȚE ȘI PERSPECTIVE
Agricultural ScienceIn the Republic of Moldova, a new agricultural system is emerging, based on a new development paradigm that promotes biological processes, maintains permanent soil cover, and rejects soil tillage.
Mihail RURAC +2 more
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Pooling effort of all stakeholders to upscale Climate Smart and Conservation Agriculture within National Task Force on Conservation Agriculture [PDF]
, 2014 Many parts of Madagascar have a recurrent problem of national and household food insecurity which is largely traceable to declining agricultural productivity set against a background of increasing population and climatic shocks. Climate smart Agriculture
Enjalric, Frank +4 more
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