This article describes some different schemes through which smallholders participate in establishing and managing productive plantations. These reflect a continuum from management by tree growers themselves to private corporate initiatives, with government-initiated collaborative management in be...
Nawir, A.A.
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Kassa, H.
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Sandewall, M.
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Dore, D.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Ohlsson, B.
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Bekele, M.
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[Stimulating smallholder tree planting – lessons from Africa and Asia]
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Stimulating smallholder tree planting – lessons from Africa and Asia
Tscharntke, Teja
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Milder, Jeffrey C.
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Schroth, Götz
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Clough, Y.
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DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.
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Waldron, A.
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Rice, R.
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Ghazoul, J.
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[Conserving biodiversity through certification of tropical agroforestry crops at local and landscape scales]
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Conserving biodiversity through certification of tropical agroforestry crops at local and landscape scales
Lentes, P
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Holmann, Federico J.
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Peters, Michael
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White, D.
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[Constraints, feeding, strategies and opportunities to improve productivity and income in milk production systems in Olancho, Honduras]
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Constraints, feeding, strategies and opportunities to improve productivity and income in milk production systems in Olancho, Honduras
Smallholder agroforestry systems often incorporate features that are associated with abundant, diverse soil macrofauna populations. This study sampled soil macrofauna communities across four major land uses present within agricultural landscapes where the Quesungual Slash-and-Mulch Agroforestry S...
Pauli, N.
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Barrios, E.
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Conacher, A.J.
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Oberthür, Thomas
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[Soil macrofauna in agricultural landscapes dominated by the Quesungual Slash-and-Mulch agroforestry system, western Honduras]
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Soil macrofauna in agricultural landscapes dominated by the Quesungual Slash-and-Mulch agroforestry system, western Honduras
Despite the fact that many smallholder farming systems in developing countries revolve around the interactions of crop and livestock enterprises, the modelling of these systems using combinations of detailed crop and livestock models is comparatively underdeveloped. A wide variety of separate cro...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[Integrated crop-livestock simulation models for scenario analysis and impact assessment]
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Integrated crop-livestock simulation models for scenario analysis and impact assessment
Inadequate supply of fodder is a serious constraint to the potentially-promising smallholder-dairy production system in coastal Kenya. Alley farming could be an approach to addressing this problem. A study of forage production based on Napier grass and leucaena in an alley cropping system was con...
Mureithi, J.G.
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Taylor, R.S.
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Thorpe, W.R.
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[Productivity of alley farming with leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala Lam. de Wit) and Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum K. Schum) in coastal lowland Kenya]
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Productivity of alley farming with leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala Lam. de Wit) and Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum K. Schum) in coastal lowland Kenya
Farmer's use of fertilizer in the highland areas of Ethiopia remains small, despite significant yield increases obtained in experimental stations and on-farm trials. Among the suspected hindrances against the use of fertilizer at the rate recommended jointly by the MOA/IAR, are farmers' aversion ...
Belete, A.
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Dillon, John L.
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Anderson, F.M.
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[Impact of fertilizer use on production and cash income of small-scale farmers in the highland areas of Ethiopia]
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Impact of fertilizer use on production and cash income of small-scale farmers in the highland areas of Ethiopia
Presents results of a study of a beef-fattening project in which smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali were provided with credit to purchase mature cattle for fattening programme. The daily weight gain in animals kept permanently housed was on average higher than in animals which were...
Bartholomew, P.W.
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Ly, R.
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Nantoume, H.
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Kone, N'G.
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Traoré, B.
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Khibe, T.
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Sissoko, K.
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Baur, H.
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[Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali]
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Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali
Information is needed on the biophysical and economic rationale for labour-demanding (and therefore, expensive) backyard animal rearing systems on smallholdings in the uplands of Java where livestock have been an integral part of highly intensive agriculture for centuries. The occurrence of high ...
Tanner, J.C.
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Holden, S.J.
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Owen, E.
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Winugroho, M.
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Gill, M.
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[Livestock sustaining intensive smallholder crop production through traditional feeding practices for generating high quality manure-compost in upland Java]
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Livestock sustaining intensive smallholder crop production through traditional feeding practices for generating high quality manure-compost in upland Java
Johns, T.
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Powell, B.
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Maundu, P.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health]
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Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health