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Family Financial Management – A Handbook for Farmers
This practical handbook aims to strengthen financial management skills and promote economic self-reliance among farming households facing risks from natural disasters and... -
An Examination of the Socio-Economic and Behavioural Drivers of Agricultural...
This document is an empirical study examining the economic, social, and behavioral factors driving the burning of rice straw and sugarcane leaves by farmers in Thailand. The... -
Piloting Sustainable Use Cases of Rice Straw – A Feasibility Study
This document is a pre-feasibility study that evaluates and proposes innovative methods for collecting, processing, and recycling rice straw as alternatives to open-field... -
Atlas of Agriculture in the Lao PDR Patterns and trends between 1999 and 2011
This new atlas was co-developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern. It combines... -
Agroecology Innovating for sustainable agriculture, food systems
Industrial food production contributes heavily towards climate change, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources €“ and in so doing it erodes the very... -
Strengthening agroecology for a fundamental transformation of agri-food systems
The negative effects of industrial agriculture have long been clear, and agroecology offers a multitude of solutions for the fundamental transformation of the agri-food system.... -
Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate...
Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Indigeneous Knowledge is also used in... -
National Strategic Development Plan 2006-2010 (Cambodia)
It provides the framework and compass for growth, employment, equity and efficiency to reach Cambodian Millennium Development Goals and well-focused and directed future... -
Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition in Cambodia 2008-2012 /...
Improving food security and nutrition in Cambodia is an important development priority of the Royal government of Cambodia and is essential for achieving the Cambodian... -
Country Strategy Paper Lao PDR - Pesticide Risk Reduction IPM Component:...
As a result of the Lao PDR joining as member country of the FAO Regional Rice IPM Programme, the Lao National IPM programme was initiated in 1994. The farmer education programme... -
From Uniformity To Diversity A Paradigm Shift from Industrial Agriculture to...
From Uniformity to Diversity presents the case for moving away from industrial agriculture—dominated by monocultures, chemical inputs, and concentration of power—towards... -
Multiple pathways: case studies of sustainable agriculture in China
The document “Multiple Pathways: Case Studies of Sustainable Agriculture in China” (IIED, 2015) presents eight detailed case studies of ecological and organic farming... -
The Current and Future Roles of Small Farm Resource Centers in Extension and...
Small Farm Resource Centers (SFRCs) coordinate trials on a central site as well as on fields of individual farmers. Any new ideas, techniques, or crops are first evaluated at... -
Toward thick legitimacy: Creating a web of legitimacy for agroecology
Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are... -
Report of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China
In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was... -
Farmer Research Networks as a Strategy for Matching Diverse Options and...
The agricultural research and development institutions in most developing countries are poorly equipped to support the needs of millions of smallholder farmers that depend upon... -
Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems
This paper was prepared as a background document for the thematic session on ‘Agroecology for Sustainable Systems’ at the Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference... -
Challenges & opportunities of agricultural extension in Myanmar
This presentation by Hla Myint Aung, Deputy Director General of Myanmar’s Department of Agriculture, outlines the current status, challenges, and opportunities for agricultural... -
Asia at the Crossroads Prioritising Conventional Farming or Sustainable Agriculture?
This report argues that Asian countries are at a crossroads in their agriculture strategies. Before them are two farming models: „conventional‟, industrial farming, promoted by... -
Building, Defending and Strengthening Agroecology. A Global Struggle for...
"Agroecology is the answer to how to transform and repair our material reality in a food system and rural world that has been devastated by industrial food production and its...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.