Agriculture manuals

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...

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 t...

Intervening in seed systems is serious business. Seed systems are at the heart of agricultural production and determines what farmers grow and whether they will have a harvest. Badly desi...

The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy. Sharp increases...

Value chains provide potential benefits for both rural producers and urban consumers. This book focuses on the role of traders, which it argues are not the villains that producers often paint them ...

A number of tools are available to elicit the knowledge, values, and preferences of communities. This paper provides a review of a selection of participatory tools in the analysis, synthesis, and d...

Following a livelihoods approach, this manual responds to the need of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) scientists and field partners for guidance on impact assessment (...

Agricultural cooperatives have been slow to computerise in least developed countries, but this fact is changing rapidly as computers become cheaper and access to the Internet grows.

These online guidelines present a series of webpages and PDF documents which provide technical guidance and information covering various areas of pesticide management. They aim to supplem...