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Guía de Herramientas: Para el facilitador de escuelas de campo de agricultores con enfoque de Manejo Integral de la Finca

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2012 - Catholic Relief Services (CRS) / Howard G. Buffet Foundation - Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
The proposed timeframe for the curriculum is three years. This guide aims to provide the elements required to apply the FFS methodology by employing a comprehensive farm management approach. The innovative perspective of this guide motivates learning beyond one crop and encourages understanding of the farm as a system. Diagnostic [...]
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An integrated pest management program for burrowing shrimp control in oyster aquaculture

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2006 - Aquaculture - Brett R. Dumbauld, Steven Booth, Daniel Cheney, Andrew Suhrbier, Hector Beltran
In January 2001, the growers, several state agencies and other parties signed a memorandum of agreement to transition the industry towards integrated pest management. The study we report on here was associated with that effort and had four objectives: 1) Estimate observer error and quantify efficacy of the current burrowing [...]
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Production system: Aquaculture, Fisheries

Interaction between Scientists and Nonscientists in Community-based Watershed Management: Emergence of the Concept of Stream Naturalization

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1999 - Environmental Management - Bruce L Rhoads, David Wilson, Michael Urban, Edwin E Herricks
The authors' personal experience in watershed planning and decision making in the agricultural Midwest is described to illustrate how: (1) formalization of the process of community-based management is not sufficient to guarantee that local people will meaningfully consider scientific information and opinion when making decisions about watersheds, and (2) genuine [...]
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