81. Farming Practices Are Endangering Our Future Food Supply Says A Study Of Satelli to promote more environmentally friendly production systems. in good landhusbandrypractices tends to by farmers; where profitable farming opportunities raise http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/Food-Supply-Satellite.htm

Farming Practices are Endangering our Future Food Supply Satellite Data Says New Scientist 14feb01 Agricultural practices are undermining our ability to feed ourselves in the future, according to a two year study of satellite data. It shows that degraded soils, dried-out aquifers, polluted waters and the destruction of natural forest and parkland by agriculture are all seriously threatening food supplies for the planet. The results were released jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the World Resources Institute, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and the World Bank. "It's a health check up for the Earth, and the diagnosis is poor," says Adlai Amor from the WRI. The report, Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Agroecosystems , is the first study to use actual satellite data rather than statistical methods to assess the planet's ability to provide food for its exploding population. Overdrawn The situation today seems promising: on average, we now produce 20 percent more food per person than in 1961. But after an expected 1.5 billion increase in population over the next 20 years, the report says providing food will become a serious challenge. Among the report's revelations are warnings that: Agriculture consumes 70 per cent of the freshwater withdrawn annually by humans and is draining more water than is being replenished by rainfall, causing water tables to fall

82. Farming Systems as well as those of the Wisconsin Integrated farming systems Trials, now outdoor classroom”provides demonstration of profitable farming practices that have http://www.michaelfieldsaginst.org/farming_systems.htm

'Foto' Story Farming Systems Outreach and Education Outdoor Classroom WICST Nutrient Trading This program area implements research finding from MFAI efforts as well as those of the Wisconsin Integrated Farming Systems Trials, now in the fifteenth year. Our target audience is grain and livestock producers, agriculture professionals and beginning farmers. Our 570-acre “outdoor classroom” provides demonstration of profitable farming practices that have positive impacts on air, water and wildlife quality. Crop rotation, ground cover, nutrient trading with local dairies, boarder strips and alternative crops are some of the practices demonstrated. Small Grains Production Last Updated on Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is a public non-profit education and research organization committed to promoting resource-conserving, ecologically sustainable and economically viable food and farm systems. Please report and difficulties with this Website to WebMaster mfai@MichaelFieldsAgInst.org

83. Profiting From Sustainable Farming Practices (News Aug 2003) groups of the Sustainable farming systems project within the past five years hadalready contributed toward more profitable, sustainable farming practices. http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/news/newsreleases/13352.html

Access keys Skip to primary navigation Skip to secondary navigation Skip to content ... Help Search: Industries Key activities Services The Department ... News FAQs 19 August 2003 Profiting from sustainable farming practices Biodiscovery, commercialisation, and scientific research and development priorities will be the hot topics of discussion when more than 200 scientists converge on Parliament for the State’s second annual Science in Parliament event. Department of Primary Industries principal agronomist Dr John Doughton and senior extension development officer Jayne Kuskie from Emerald will be among the scientists keen to discuss their area of expertise with Parliamentarians during the event on August 20. Dr Doughton is the coordinator of the widely acclaimed Central Queensland Sustainable Farming Systems project. Ms Kuskie oversees the farmer initiated on-farm projects that are contributing toward the ecological sustainability of central Queensland’s dryland grain cropping and grazing industries. Dr Doughton said the Central Queensland Sustainable Farming Systems project had created 10 farmer action-learning groups to date and had emerged as a role model for the development of improved farming systems.

84. BAIF Development Research Foundation 2000 Studies on EMbased farming practices for Small Conference on Kyusei Nature farming,20-23 the introduction of multipurpose trees in agroforestry systems. http://www.baif.com/additional_tree15.htm

PROGRAMMES : Tree Based Farming Approach Research and Development Projects Impact Publications ... Contact Us ADDITIONAL READINGS Daniel, J.N. Studies on EM-based Farming Practices for Small Farmers in India To be published. In Proc. of the International Conference on Kyusei Nature Farming, 20-23 September, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Abstract 1. Introduction The technology of Effective Microorganisms (EM) has multiple applications in agriculture and other disciplines (Higa, 1995). BAIF Development Research Foundation in India has initiated studies on the use of (a) EM in crop nutrition for composting and as soil application, (b) fermented Neem-seed Extract of EM (fNEEM) for crop protection and (c) EM technology as an alternative to burning of biomass in seedbed preparation. 2. Crop Nutrition

85. Biodynamic Farming & Compost Preparation farming in many ways — especially with regard to cultural and biological farmingpractices — it is set apart from other organic agriculture systems by its http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/biodynamic.html

Alternative Farming Systems Guide ATTRANational Sustainable Agriculture Information Service PO Box 3657 Fayetteville, AR 72702 Phone: 1-800-346-9140 - FAX: (479) 442-9842 By Steve Diver NCAT Agriculture Specialist February 1999 The PDF version of this document is available at http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/biodynam.pdf kb Index Abstract Introduction The Biodynamic Preparations Biodynamic Compost ... Table 4. Biodynamic Agriculture Paradigm Abstract Biodynamic agriculture was the first ecological farming system to arise in response to commercial fertilizers and specialized agriculture after the turn of the century, yet it remains largely unknown to the modern farmer and land-grant university system. The contribution of biodynamics to organic agriculture is significant, however, and warrants more attention. The following provides an overview of biodynamic farming and includes additional details and resources on the specialized practice of biodynamic composting. Go To Top Introduction Biodynamic agriculture is an advanced organic farming system that is gaining increased attention for its emphasis on food quality and soil health.

86. N.C. Department Agriculture And Consumer Services Environmental Sustainability R A major research goal is to identify productive and profitable farming practicesand systems that will benefit water quality, reduce soil erosion, improve soil http://www.p2pays.org/ref/07/06568/2001/nframe.asp?type=AGY&page=AGY-agcefs.htm

87. NCDA & CS - Research Stations - Cherry Research Farm in the state a facility dedicated to the development of farming systems that are theland allows the monitoring of the effects of CEFS farming practices on a http://www.ncagr.com/Research/cefs.htm

Research Stations ABOUT THE DIVISION NEWS CONTACT INFORMATION OUR 18 LOCATIONS Border Belt Tobacco Caswell Research Farm Cherry Research Farm Central Crops ... Upper Piedmont EVENTS Ag Awareness Days Field Days Celebrations Charitable WITHIN THE DIVISION Weather Reporting Resources Engineering Foreign Animal Disease/Crop Protection Precautions What you need to know before visiting a Research Station Questions/comments about the Research Stations Division Website? Cherry Research Farm Eddie Pitzer, Superintendent 201 Stevens Mill Road Goldsboro, NC 27530-1057 PHONE: (919) 731-3270 FAX: (919) 731-3273 Get there! Area Weather Weather data gathered on the station The Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro, host of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) , is owned and operated by the The Farm was originally a State Farm and a source of food for adjacent Cherry Hospital, a mental institution. Patients worked on the Farm as a therapeutic benefit, and gained skills to enable them to be mainstreamed into society and support themselves financially.

88. Farming Systems socioeconomic practices. From this data, researchers classified typical productionsystems as traditional, semiintensive, or intensive. Traditional farmers http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-35321-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

var static_ko="35321"; var static_section="201"; var static_langue="en"; IDRC.CA Library Research Projects Topic Explorer Library Collections Contact Us Research Projects ... Search Tools Participate Owner Catherine Shearer ID: Added: 2003-07-29 12:38 (Ottawa) Modified: 2003-07-29 12:38 (Ottawa) Farming Systems (Mali) - Phase I Project 45 of 135 Joseph Hulse Edited Abstract The small farmers in the Sahelian region of West Africa face food production difficulties due to soil exhaustion and erosion, aggravated by drought and irregular rainfall. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria, and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India, are starting breeding programs designed to produce improved crop varieties for these conditions. However, there is a lack of scientific data on small farming practices in the region, which would affect the success of introducing and adopting these improved varieties and other advanced agricultural technologies. This project will attempt to gather factual information on small farming practices in South Mali. Post Project Abstract Mali WARO/BRACO Closed Research Project Joseph Hulse Sub-Saharan Africa Geographic Area Under Study Regional Office Mali WARO/BRACO 36 months 0 months NO AFNS/SAAN guest (Read)(Ottawa) Login Important Notices

89. NMSU Drip Irrigation Study Could Alter Farming Practices In Four Corners Area NMSU Drip Irrigation Study Could Alter farming practices in Four northwestern NewMexico could help farmers in the By switching from traditional systems to drip http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/news/2001/070201_drip.html

NMSU Drip Irrigation Study Could Alter Farming Practices in Four Corners Area Current News Search news by subject 4-H Awards/Honors Business Chile Dairy Distance Learning Family/Consumer Field Crops Food/Nutrition Gardening Headlines Livestock NMSU Personnel Range/Forestry Students Tourism Vegetable/Nut/Fruit Water Wildlife or by NMSU Drip Irrigation Study Could Alter Farming Practices in Four Corners Area Date: Monday, July 2, 2001 Contact: Mick O'Neill (505) 327-7757 moneill@nmsu.edu Editor: Kevin Robinson (505) 323-8604 kevinrob@nmsu.edu FARMINGTON - Drip irrigation research in the sandy loam soils of northwestern New Mexico could help farmers in the semiarid Four Corners make a transition to more efficient irrigation. By switching from traditional systems to drip, local farmers can reduce water, fertilizer and pesticide use while increasing crop yields and profitability, said Mick O'Neill, superintendent of New Mexico State University's Agricultural Science Center at Farmington. "Given the semiarid conditions here, we need to find much more efficient methods of irrigation, and this technology can help a lot in that regard," said O'Neill, who is supervising the drip irrigation study. "It has the potential to increase yields with less water while reducing inputs such as fertilizer and herbicides. That gives it tremendous appeal for the big commercial producers as well as the small-scale, resource-poor farmers right here on the Navajo Nation." Most local farmers use flood irrigation and sprinkler systems. With those techniques, about 30 to 50 percent of water is lost to evaporation, leaching and runoff. Drip irrigation, which supplies water directly to plant roots trough a perforated tape buried permanently under the beds, allows 90 to 95 percent of water to flow directly to plants, O'Neill said.

90. The European Group Of The International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Carri ecologically desirable systems? What farming practices are suitable forthese systems? How will these practices be developed? What will http://www.agr.uth.gr/conference/farming/programme.htm

Back to the main page The European Group of the International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) carries out European Symposia biannually. After three successful symposia in Edinburgh/UK, Granada/Spain and Hohenheim/Germany the Group decided to have the next symposium at Volos/Geece (Univ. of Thessaly). This European Symposium addresses all Europeans irrespective their area/region of research and work as well as Non-Europeans working in Europe. It would be highly welcomed, if participants and authors would represent a wide range of European States (EU member States, Central and Eastern Europe). The Committees Steering Committee: Jacques Brossier (INRA, France), Werner Doppler (Un. Hohenheim, Germany), David Gibbon/ Janice Jiggins (Swedish Un. of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden), Alex Koutsouris (chairperson – Development Agency of Karditsa, Greece), Tahir Rehman (Un. Reading, UK). Scientific Committee: Will be composed of reviewers of papers as well as of presenters and reporters in the Symposium. Organising Committee: Nikos Dalezios (University of Thessaly), Dimitris Damianos (University of Patras), Dimitris Goussios (University of Thessaly), Alex Koutsouris (AFSRE), Nikos Martinos (Agricultural University of Athens), Makis Psychoudakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Spyros Vyzantinopoulos (National Agricultural Research Foundation).

91. Soil-friendly Farming Practices Are Coming Into Wider Use literally, through geographic information systems (GIS of information elevation,cropping practices, rainfall, slope depict a watershed or farming region in http://population.wri.org/pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1442

92. The Software Studio : /Science/Agriculture This software available soon at The Software Studio. Tue April 27, 2004. Top Science Agriculture Farming_Practices_and_Systems Sustainable_Agriculture Agricultural Training Centre for Small http://portal.thesoftwarestudio.com/index.php/Science/Agriculture/Farming_Practi

This software available soon at The Software Studio Jun 06, 2004 Top Science Animals Conferences ... Agriculture 21 - Food and Agriculture Organization's agriculture website. Includes a news magazine plus guides and links to information on livestock, biotechnology, land/water development, crop production, plant protection, agricultural support systems. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth. Bee Culture - Explains the crops that are pollinated by these insects. Gives the general location and ideal bees for these plants. Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, NAS/NRC - Part of U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. Topics on site include animal nutrition, pesticides, and federal funding of agricultural research. CABI Commodities - Information and services for growers of coffee and cocoa. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - CGIAR's mission is to contribute to food security and poverty eradication in developing countries through research, partnership, capacity building, and policy support, and promoting sustainable agricultural development based on the environmentally sound management of natural resources. National Institute of Agricultural Botany - Independent body specialising in agriculture, horticulture and food. It supplies a number of services including consultancy, training, and technical advice to governments, supra-governmental agencies, agribusiness and farmers.

93. Titlepage.html Traditional practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional FarmingSystems. H. David Thurston. Professor Emeritus Department http://www.tropag-fieldtrip.cornell.edu/Thurston_TA/default.html

Traditional Practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional Farming Systems H. David Thurston Professor Emeritus - Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY, 14850 ( hdt1@cornell.edu Scarlet runner bean This page is, at best, an introduction to the subject of traditional farming systems. Crop production began perhaps 10,000 years ago. Some ancient farmers developed sustainable agriculture practices that allowed them to produce food and fiber and manage plant diseases for thousands of years with few outside inputs. Many of their successful practices have been forgotten or abandoned in developed countries, but some are still used by traditional farmers in a wide variety of environments in developing countries. The term traditional is usually associated with primitive agricultural systems or preindustrial peasant agriculture. Traditional farming usually is based on practices that have been passed down for many generations. The objective here is to give an overview of the range of methods used by traditional farmers over time to restrict plant diseases without reliance on external or synthetic inputs. Traditional systems of Latin America, Africa, and Asia are considered. Most of the information on traditional agriculture pertinent to the management of plant diseases has never been recorded in a form easily accessible by today's farmers and scientists. With rare exceptions, those who have studied indigenous and traditional agriculture seldom consider or even mention plant diseases. Traditional agricultural practices should be understood and conserved before they are lost with the rapid advance of modern agriculture in developing countries. Plant pathologists and other agricultural scientists can learn much from traditional farmers to elucidate principles and methods useful in the future management of plant diseases. Traditional knowledge can be overvalued or romanticized, but that is better than despising or ignoring it. Combining the best of traditional agriculture methods with the best of modern agriculture should go a long way towards sustaining agriculture in the coming century.

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