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Site Map   Learning Modules   Discussion Archives	On-line Newsletters, Magazines and Bulletins The on-line newsletters below contain material (or certain issues) that relate to soil health. Topics include cover crops, tillage, sustainable agriculture, development, agroforestry, indigenous knowledge, ethnobotany, etc. temperate focus tropics/subtropics focus Tropics/Subtropics Focus ACT Info is the African Conservation Tillage Network's (ACT) monthly electronic update available on the Web or via e-mail subs criptions available at actnetwork@africaonline.co.zw. AgREN, Overseas Development Institute's Agriculture Research and Extension Network Newsletter covering small scale agriculture issues, can be accessed from the publications link on the home page. A related "Network Papers" series is also available. agroforester.com has a variety of bulletins and free guides on agroforestry, forest establishment, sheet mulching, weeds, leaf vegetables, and forestry technologies for disturbed forests. The CIEPCA Newsletter is published by the Center for Cover Crops Information and Seed Exchange in Africa) twice a year in English and French (all in pdf and selected issues in html). Cover Crop News, published by CIDICCO (The Cover Crop Clearinghouse), is on-line (selected issues) in English and Spanish (Boletines "Noticias Sobre Cultivos de Cobertura"). ECHO Development Notes (EDN), a quarterly technical bulletin about practicle sustainable development issues in developing countries, is available on-line, as hard copy or as an e-mail message. Winrock International and the Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Network has made issues of the FACT Net News Newsletter published from 1996 to 1999 available on-line. IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) has links to newsletters of several other organizations, including CIEPCA (see above) and the Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor was a journal published from 1993 to 2001 to serve those with a professional interest in indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSP). The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has a list of agricultural newsletters worldwide, many of which have information on soil health. The Lathyrus Lathyrism Newsletter is published on-line by the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) and Third World Medical Research Foundation (TWMRF). Legume Research Network Newsletters contain short articles on legume research, especially those based on research aimed at integrating legumes into smallholder agriculture in Kenya On-line issues of the LEISA (Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture) Magazine from March 1995 to present are available in pdf format from the Centre for Information on Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA). Mucuna News is a bulletin related to food and feed uses of Mucuna, several species of which are well-known green manure/cover crops. Newsletter for Ecofarming in Africa is a quarterly publication by the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) and the Food and Agriculture Development Center (ZEL). Soil Fertility Matters is an on-line and hardcopy newsletter published by the Southeast Asia Regional Network on Soil Fertility and Improved Fallow Management. TSBF Newsletter contains information gleaned by the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF) Institute of CIAT. WASWC Newsletter, published by the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation, is available for 2001-2003 in pdf format. WOCAT Newsletter, published quarterly by the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT), is available on-line becginning in March 2000 (pdf format). Temperate climate focus Issues of the ATTRAnews Digest Newsletter dating back to 1993 are available from this ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) site. Soils Are Alive is a bimonthly newsletter maintained on the soilhealth.com website of the Soil Biology Research Group at the University of Western Australia. Past issues of The Australian New Crops Newsletter published from 1994 to 1999 are available from the University of Queensland. Organic Farming Research Foundation Newsletter, published since 1996, is available for downloading in pdf format. People and Plants Online publishes an on-line newsletter every two months. The current issue is on this page and free subscriptions to future issues are available via email. People and Plants focuses on capacity-building in applied ethnobotany. AcresUSA is a subscription on-line and hardcopy magazine about North American organic and sustainable agriculture. The University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program or UC SAREP (USA) publishes the Sustainable Agriculture Newsletter three times a year.
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