• The key issues participants believed should be explored more in future workshops and network exchanges are noted below. 

Technologies 

• Cover crops and crop rotations
• Weed management
• Use of herbicides:
• Impact on environment and farmers' health
• Overuse of herbicides and pesticides (pollution of surface and ground water)
• How to handle CT in semi-arid areas: lack of crop residues due to low biomass production and livestock husbandry; poor soils; water shortage; subsistence economies; no commercial inputs such as herbicides
• How to handle risk when promoting new technologies

Dissemination approaches 

• How to define recommendations for location specific problems
• Multidisciplinary approach for CT technologies
• Involvement of extension in research and technology development
• Immediate benefits which could accrue to resource poor farmers
• How to obviate perceptions

Gender 

• Gender aspects of conservation tillage
• Woman's participation in technology development and dissemination

Stakeholders 

• How to bring the stakeholders together
• How to influence government to promote CT
• Definition of roles of different stakeholders (who should best develop/finance technologies)
• Farmers should define research demands
• Motivate farmers to play their role as equal stakeholders (take responsibility)

Socio-economic frame conditions 

• Farmers resource constraints
• Financing of commercial inputs
• Input supply and services structures for equipment
• Infrastructure in rural areas
• Who should fund technology development: government, industry, farmers?
• Development/training of local artisans
• Promotion of farmer organizations: influence on product prices
• Building-up agri-business in rural areas
• Land tenure: user rights, grazing rights

Political frame conditions 

• How to gain political support for conservation tillage
• Is conservation tillage a political issue?

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