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Anderson S., Gündel S., Pound B., Triomphe B. 2001. Cover crops in smallholder agriculture. London: ITDG Publishing.

Beingolea Ochoa J. 1993. Utilización del tarwi como abono verde en el programa de chiroqasa del norte de Potosí, Bolivia. pp. 101-104 in Gorras y sombreros: caminos hacia la colaboración entre técnicos y campesinos. CIMMYT, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico.

Bunch, R. Achieving sustainability in the use of green manures. ILEIA newsletter 13 (3):12. Available at http://www.ileia.org/2/13-3/13-3-12.htm

Bunch, R. Tropical green manures/cover crops. in The Overstory #29, hosted by agroforester.com. Available at http://www.agroforester.com/overstory/overstory29.html

Campbell, C.G. 1997.Grass Pea. Lathyrus sativus L. Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 18. Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gaterslaben/ International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy. Available at http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/publications/pdf/430.pdf

Consorcio para el desarrollo sostenible de la ecorregión andina (CONDESAN). 1999. Reg. 01/99: En la cima de los Andes: promoviendo patrones racionales para el uso del suelo en los páramos de Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú (project proposal). Available at www.condesan.org/memorias/reg0199.pdf

Cornejo, Q.W. 1977. The cultivation of Tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis) as an antagonist to Nacobbus and Heterodera spp. Nematropica 7(2).

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Frame, J. 2001. FAO forage database species description. Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Available at http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/DATA/Pf000347.htm

Jenkinson DS, Harris HC, Ryan J, McNeill AM, Pilbeam CJ. 1999. Organic matter turnover in a calcareous clay soil from Syria under a two-course cereal rotation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31:687-693.

Keatinge JDH, Qi A, Wheeler TR, Ellis RH, Craufurd PQ and Summerfield RJ. 1996. Photothermal effects on the phenology of annual legume crops with potential for use as cover crops and green manures in tropical and subtropical hillside environments. Field Crop Abstracts 49(12):1119-1130.

Muehlbauer FJ and Tullu A. 1998. Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products NewCROP FactSHEET. Lathyrus sativus. Available at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.html

Oregon State University (personal author unknown). 1996. "Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) International forage fact sheet series of the forage information system. Available at http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/Topics/Species/Legumes/Alfalfa/International_Fact_Sheet.html

SAN (Sustainable Agriculture Network). 1998. Managing cover crops profitably. Sustainable Agriculture Network, Beltsville, MD. available at http://www.sare.org/handbook/mccp2/

Sims, BG, Twomlow SJ and Ellis-Jones J. 2001. Participatory land and water management: Silsoe research institute's experiences from Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. pp. 53-60 in Stott DE et al. eds. 2001. Sustaining the global farm. Selected papers from the 10th international soil conservation organization meeting held May 24-29, 1999 at Purdue University and the USDA-ARS national soil erosion laboratory. available at http://topsoil.nserl.purdue.edu/nserlweb/isco99/pdf/ISCOdisc/ SustainingTheGlobalFarm/P001-Sims.pdf

Sims, BG and Rodriguez V, F. 2001. Forage production and erosion control as a complement to hillside weed management. in International workshop on integrated management for sustainable agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. Available at http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/inrm/workshop2001/docs/titles/1-1DPaperBSims.pdf

Register of Australian Herbage Plant Cultivars. 1972. Vicia villosa ssp. dasycarpa (Ten.) Cav. (woolly pod vetch). cv. Namoi. Available at http://www.pi.csiro.au/ahpc/legumes/pdf/namoi.pdf

Vanek, SJ. 2002. Competitive yield reduction, weed suppression, and insect pest mitigation in pumpkin/lana vetch/rye interseeding systems. MS thesis, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University.

Wheeler TR, Qi A, Keatinge JDH, Ellis R.H., Summerfield RJ. 1999. Selecting legume cover crops for hillside environments in Bolivia. Mountain Research and Development 19(4): 318-324.