Technology and innovation
- A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas
- J. Diaz Nieto / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006
- This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help smallholder farmers break out of the poverty trap. Although insurance is a well-established means t...
- Getting a handle on high value agriculture
- Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2005
- This annual report examines the obstacles to, and rewards of, diversifying into higher value crops or growing traditional commodities that have been transformed into money earners through value adding...
- Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners
- Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006
- Does seed aid needs to be improved? According to the authors of this publication series, seed-based agricultural recovery is more complex than commonly assumed. This series of practice briefs offers a...
- Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development
- L. Sperling; T. Remington; J. Haugen; S. Nagoda / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004
- This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the br...
- Scaling up and out: achieving widespread impact through agricultural research
- D. Pachico; S. Fujisaka / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004
- This book explores how to achieve and demonstrate greater impacts in agricultural research: i.e. how more people over greater areas can benefit as well as how useful approaches within agricultural res...
- Managing nutrient cycles to sustain soil fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
- A. Bationo / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004
- This book provides a synthesis of topical issues relating to sustaining soil fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book is composed of three sections. The first section deals with the issues of inte...
- A territorial based approach to agro-enterprise development
- M. Lundy / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2005
- Global commodity and consumption trends are increasingly marginalising rural agricultural producers, with particularly negative effects on those distant from markets. This paper sets out a strategy to...
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