Agriculture manuals
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- A training manual on water management in agriculture in Ethiopia
- ( S.B. Awulachew;P. Lemperiere;T. Tulu / International Livestock Research Institute , 2009)
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This training manual on agricultural water management has been prepared with the aim of providing reference and guidance materials on smallholders' agricultural management, primarily for Ethio...
- Participatory farming management methods and their uses
- ( P. Dorward;D. Shepherd;M. Galpin / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007)
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Central to the use of Participatory Farming Management (PFM) methods is the understanding that the farmer is the decision maker and that he or she takes the risks associated with change, not the ad...
- Opportunities for increasing the incomes of small-scale farmers
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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What opportunities are there at farm and local community level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers? This series of booklets aims to raise awareness and provide decision support informati...
- Tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and rural development
- ( B. Hall (ed);N. Okidegbe;T. Marchant;et al / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core i...
- An online guide to institutional learning and change
- ( Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research , 2009)
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This online sourcebook is intended for use by all those who are responsible for planning, managing, carrying out or evaluating research and development and who wish to improve their effectiveness i...
- Finding the most appropriate tools for knowledge sharing
- ( N. White;L. Lamoureux;S. Staiger-Rivas / Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research , 2009)
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The Institutional Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project together with CGIAR Center partners has been experimenting with a range of KS tools and methods over the past five years and has recently been assem...
- How to develop and promote food diversification and nutrition in Malawi
- ( S. Nordin / Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi , 2005)
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Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-mon...
- How to monitor and evaluate agricultural water management projects
- ( M. Burton;L. Smith;J. Roux / World Bank , 2008)
- Pressures on agricultural water are intensifying, with the need to meet ever-rising food demands while at the same time increasing farmer incomes, reducing poverty, and protecting the environment, all...
- Gender in Agriculture from a sustainable livelihoods approach
- ( L. Brown;Y. Lambrou;R. Birner / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2008)
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This sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for-developmen...
- How to mitigate human-elephant conflict in Africa (participant manual)
- ( G.E. Parker;F.V. Osborn;R.E. Hoarse / , 2007)
- Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a complex and pervasive problem that occurs throughout the range of the African elephant wherever elephants and people share the same habitat, often competing for the ...
