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Farming Systems
and Poverty: Improving Farmers' Livelihoods in a Changing World
John Dixon and Aidan Gulliver with David Gibbon Principal Editor: Malcolm Hall.
Published: Rome
Date: 2001
Language: English
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Small ponds make a big difference:
integrating fish with crop and livestock farming
This book aims to raise awareness about the many potential contributions of aquaculture
to household food security and income generation. Although aquaculture encompasses
a wide range of aquatic organisms and intensities of production, the main focus
of this document is on extensive to semi-intensive pond aquaculture. The various
challenges and multiple advatages of integrating aquaculture into smallholder
farming systems are pointed out, and key considerations which are crucial for
aquaculture and farming systems development in different parts of the world are
highlighted.
Published: Rome
Date: 2000
Language: English
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A history of farming systems research
Farming Systems Research (FSR) is a set of methods for researchers to understand
farm households and their decision-making. It is often referred to as a diagnostic
process. Its applications use this understanding to increase efficiency in the
use of human and budgetary resources for agricultural development, including research,
extension and policy formulation. This book provides a detailed history of FSR.
While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its
main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small-scale, resource-poor farmers
in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors
from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity yet coherence of FSR. The book
was initiated by the then Association for Farming Systems Research and Extension
(now International Farming Systems Association) and developed with support from
FAO.
Rome, 2000 English |
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Use and potential of wild plants in farm households
This document describes the major areas in which wild plants contribue to farm
household incomes and the welfare of the local people and assesses the potential
for future development. The book also points out the social, economic, legal and
institutional constraints to enhance the use of wild plants and proposes ways
in which these constraints may be overcome.
Rome, 1999 English |
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Farming systems approach and postconflict reconstruction
This document deals with the linkages between the farming systems approach to
development (FSD) and postwar rehabilitation and reconstruction. The main purpose
of the document is to promote the use of FSD techniques in identifying appropriate
ways to help small farming households in postwar situation to restore and improve
agricultural productivity and levels of living in an equitable and sustainable
manner, and to strengthen preventive factors to reduce future recurrence of wars.
Rome, 1998 English |
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Farm management for Asia: a systems approach
This publication breaks new ground in synthesizing orthodox farm management approaches
and more recent systems thinking in the context of analysing and planning ht eimprovement
of small family farms. Starting with a new schema for classifying farm types and
agricultural systems, it demonstrates the application of a range of quantitative
analytical methods for understanding and working within the complex world of traditional
small farm systems. These techniques are illustrated with practical examples taken
from various parts of Asia, but eh approach and the methodology will be of interest
to all concerned with small farm development anywhere in the world.
Rome, 1997 English
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