Information-seeking Strategies Among Potato Farmers in West Java, Indonesia
Author : Penny Ismiati Iskak
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Farmers
ISBN :
Author : Penny Ismiati Iskak
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Farmers
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Publisher :
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Nicolaus Cromme
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251066270
This publication is based on the proceedings of the Workshop "Strengthening Potato Value Chains in developing countries" held in November 2008. The presentations summarized in this publication are mostly based on experiences made in CFC (Common Fund for Commodities) potato sector development projects. In line with the policy to disseminate the information generated by CFC financed projects as widely as possible, it is our expectation that this publication will be instrumental to make impressive results and experiences of CFC pilot projects in the potato sector available to a wider audience. This document will be most useful and relevant to extension workers, researchers, policy makers and others involved in the development of the potato sector.
Author : Hugo Campos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030286835
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.
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Publisher :
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136529276
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
Author : Joachim Von Braun
Publisher : International Food Policy Research Insitute
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.
Author : Charles C. Crissman
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290601364
Potatoes in the Philippines; Breeding and variety selection for seed production; Inital seed multiplication; Building seed supplies; Other organized potato production schemes; Crop protection and storage; Issues.
Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046272
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : Devaux, André
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0896292134
Governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals. This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD.