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Book Synopsis A History of Farming Systems Research by : Michael P. Collinson
Download or read book A History of Farming Systems Research written by Michael P. Collinson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (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 and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.
Book Synopsis Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic by : Ika Darnhofer
Download or read book Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic written by Ika Darnhofer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes. Farming Systems Research posits that to contribute towards sustainable rural development, both interdisciplinary collaborations and local actor engagement are needed. Together, they allow for changes in understanding and changes in practices. This book gives an overview of the insights generated in 20 years of Farming Systems Research. It retraces the emergence and development of Farming Systems Research in Europe, summarises the state-of-the-art for key areas, and provides an outlook on new explorations, especially those tackling the dynamic nature of farming systems and their interaction with the natural environment and the context of action.
Book Synopsis Long-Term Farming Systems Research by : Gurbir Bhullar
Download or read book Long-Term Farming Systems Research written by Gurbir Bhullar and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-Term Farming Systems Research: Ensuring Food Security in Changing Scenarios presents the legacy and heritage of Long-Term Experiments (LTEs) in Agriculture while also addressing the challenges and potential solutions. The book discusses how LTEs form an important asset in understanding agriculture’s significant influence on life on earth. As global governments and development agencies try to achieve the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, this book’s content is of unprecedented importance, providing insights into the interactions of agricultural production with ecological, economic and societal aspects. In this regard, this book offers a thorough resource of information based on experiences from various ongoing LTEs in different parts of the world. The contextual variety and geographic diversity presented in this book makes it useful for agricultural and environmental scientists, as well as students and educators in such fields. --- From the Editors: "Thanks to the excellent panel of our contributing authors, in this book, we have attempted to offer the widest possible thematic and geographical coverage on LTEs. Experts from different institutions leading LTEs across the globe have provided their perspectives on different aspects of LTEs, not only highlighting the unique knowledge contribution of LTEs, but also discussing the unique challenges of effectively managing LTEs and maintaining their relevance to changing scenarios. We hope that this book will offer something for everyone interested in the history, present and future of our agroecosystem." Provides a comprehensive resource of information generated in various LTEs across the globe, with a focus on various aspects of farming systems, crop management practices, plant, soil and human nutrition as well as on capacity development Presents a holistic view on interactions of agricultural production and its relationship to the environment and society Identifies challenges and lessons learned from different LTEs and provides recommendations for potential solutions
Book Synopsis Systems Research for Agriculture by : Laurie E. Drinkwater
Download or read book Systems Research for Agriculture written by Laurie E. Drinkwater and published by Department of Agriculture. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming Systems Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Working Papers: Issues in farming systems research by : Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group
Download or read book Working Papers: Issues in farming systems research written by Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Farming for the Long Haul by : Michael Foley
Download or read book Farming for the Long Haul written by Michael Foley and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience
Book Synopsis People of the Plow by : James McCann
Download or read book People of the Plow written by James McCann and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.
Book Synopsis Working Papers: A working bibliography on farming systems research by : Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group
Download or read book Working Papers: A working bibliography on farming systems research written by Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Farming Systems in the Tropics by : Hans Ruthenberg
Download or read book Farming Systems in the Tropics written by Hans Ruthenberg and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.
Book Synopsis Peasants, Farmers and Scientists by : H.J.W. Mutsaers
Download or read book Peasants, Farmers and Scientists written by H.J.W. Mutsaers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of tropical agricultural science and agricultural development in the 20th century, focusing on the African farmer and African farming methods. It describes successes as well as fads and failures, many based on the author’s first-hand observations during more than 40 years in tropical agronomy-related fields. Moving into the 21st century, the book explores the rise of computer modeling of crops and crop production.
Book Synopsis Evolving from farming systems research into a more holistic rural development approach: Experiences in the Andean region by :
Download or read book Evolving from farming systems research into a more holistic rural development approach: Experiences in the Andean region written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Working Papers by : Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group
Download or read book Working Papers written by Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Working Papers: Farming systems research postion paper by : Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group
Download or read book Working Papers: Farming systems research postion paper written by Michigan State University. Farming Systems Research Group and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Farming Systems Research and Agricultural Economics by : Eric Winthrop Crawford
Download or read book Farming Systems Research and Agricultural Economics written by Eric Winthrop Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: This paper sets forth a preliminary understanding of farming systems research (FSR), how it relates to other types of research and problem-solving activities in associated disciplines, and how the involvement of other disciplines would contribute to the work of each profession involved in FSR.
Book Synopsis Evaluating Technology for New Farming Systems by : Colin Barlow
Download or read book Evaluating Technology for New Farming Systems written by Colin Barlow and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background to the study; Farm level impacts of new technologies; The dynamics of technology adoption; Assessing the benefits of new technologies.
Book Synopsis Farming Systems Research by : Norman W. Simmonds
Download or read book Farming Systems Research written by Norman W. Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming systems research in geral. The nature of on-farm research with a farming systems perspective. Wider questions.
