Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less-favoured AreasRuerd Ruben, J. Pender, Arie Kuyvenhoven CABI, 2007 - 472 pages Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session |
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Page 16
... farmers. In the Dhading district of Nepal, where planting of multipurpose trees almost doubled net returns to farming at only slightly higher costs, including the additional income from fodder, fuelwood and timber. Short-rotation ...
... farmers. In the Dhading district of Nepal, where planting of multipurpose trees almost doubled net returns to farming at only slightly higher costs, including the additional income from fodder, fuelwood and timber. Short-rotation ...
Page 17
... farming on acid soils in the uplands of the Philippines. Techniques like alley cropping, hedgerow intercropping and community woodlots are less easily adopted by smallholder farmers due to their high labour or input costs. The adoption ...
... farming on acid soils in the uplands of the Philippines. Techniques like alley cropping, hedgerow intercropping and community woodlots are less easily adopted by smallholder farmers due to their high labour or input costs. The adoption ...
Page 18
... farmers' income varies strongly between different settings. In the Sahelian countries, simple and low-cost ... farmers with cattle and commercial crops used improved fallow, chemical fertilizer and manure for soil fertility management ...
... farmers' income varies strongly between different settings. In the Sahelian countries, simple and low-cost ... farmers with cattle and commercial crops used improved fallow, chemical fertilizer and manure for soil fertility management ...
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... farmers, and is best controlled through cultural practices that maintain pests at a controllable level. Conventional synthetic pesticides tend gradually to lose their effectiveness and concerns are growing regarding the detrimental ...
... farmers, and is best controlled through cultural practices that maintain pests at a controllable level. Conventional synthetic pesticides tend gradually to lose their effectiveness and concerns are growing regarding the detrimental ...
Page 20
... farmers had applied the new techniques in small areas of 0.9–1.4 ha. Training and extension, and food-for-work rations (in dry years), tools and community infrastructure have supported rapid dissemination (Hassane et al., 2000). Surface ...
... farmers had applied the new techniques in small areas of 0.9–1.4 ha. Training and extension, and food-for-work rations (in dry years), tools and community infrastructure have supported rapid dissemination (Hassane et al., 2000). Surface ...
Contents
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Development Strategies for Poor People in Lessfavoured Areas | 63 |
Resource Management Options | 133 |
Livelihoods and Food Security | 203 |
Markets and Institutional Development | 271 |
Strategies and Policy Priorities | 419 |
Index | 467 |
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