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AEAC.SV Fichas Técnicas

Description:
Seis fichas técnicas sobre laboreo de conservacion; siembra directa; cubiertas vegetales y control de erosión.

Accessible from:
http://www.aeac-sv.org/html/fichas.html

Agroecology Case Studies

Description:
A list of agroecology case studies with active links to the actual case studies across the world.

Accessible from:
http://agroecology.org/cases.htm

Agroecology Homepage

Description:
This website is an information resource for developing sustainable agroecosystems, emphasizing international training, research, and application of agroecological science to solving real world problems. Building on the first Agroecology textbook, this site offers agroecological knowledge to anyone concerned with sustainable food systems. We also conduct training courses and intensive workshops on-site in Santa Cruz, California, including the International Short Course in Agroecology and support international activities linking agroecology and sustainability, such as the August 1999 Symposium on Ecological Processes in Agricultural Landscapes. This site also provides tools for understanding principles of agroecology using a series of case studies, an agroecology discussion forum, and a glossary of agroecological terms.

Accessible from:
http://agroecology.org/

agroforester.com Your Resource for Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry

Description:
Homepage with journal subscription information, free publications, services, tree seedlings information, previous journal editions, and other agroforestry-related information.

Accessible from:
http://www.agroforester.com/index.html

Better Land Husbandry: Re-Thinking Approaches to Land Improvement and the Conservation of Water and Soil

Description:
A paper arguing for an alternative perception to soil erosion that focuses on prior land damage - notably to soil cover, architecture and fertility.

Accessible from:
http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/19.html

Cover Crops and Living Mulches

Description:
This page from the 'Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South' website briefly presents use and management of cover crops and living mulches for the southern United States.

Accessible from:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/sustainable/peet/cover/c02cover.html

Crisis or Sustainability? Central America’s choices for recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch

Description:
A paper on the devastating ecological impacts to Central America brought about by Hurricane Mitch

Accessible from:
http://www.agroecology.org/people/eric/mitch.htm

Crop Residue Distributors for Grain Combines

Description:
This fact sheet outlines what and how the material discharged behind combines during corn and soybean harvest can be windrowed or distributed on the surface with various combine attachments.

Accessible from:
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/CT/CT-5.html

ECHO-Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization

Description:
Homepage with information on resources for tropical agriculture, ECHO's Global Bookstore online, and other information

Accessible from:
http://echonet.org/

Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture: Volume 6.

Description:
Future Horizons: Recent Literature in Sustainable Agriculture. This site presents reviews of recent sustainable agriculture literature.

Accessible from:
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/csas/extvol6.htm

Legume Research Network Project Newsletters

Description:
This project contains the newsletters regarding the Legume Project. This project identify suitable legume species for regions in Kenya and develops better farming systems for that region. The project also includes information agronomy, evaluation of grain legumes, seed bulking as well as livestock feeding studies

Accessible from:
http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/mba_project/CIEPCA/lrnpnews.html

Manejo Ecológico del Suelo

Description:
Un manual práctico y breve del Centro de Investigación, Educación y Desarrollo (CIED) de Perú para apoyar a la promoción y extensión de técnicas agroecológicas como la labranza mínima, el uso de mulch, la rotación de cultivos, los policultivos, y los cultivos de cobertura. Incluye dibujos y actividades para los participantes.

Accessible from:
http://www.ciedperu.org/manuales/suelin.htm

MOIST-Sponsored Electronic Discussion Groups

Description:
English, French, and Spanish language electronic mailing lists about tropical cover crops green manures, mulch, managed fallows, and other organic inputs.

Accessible from:
http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/mba_project/moist/mailist2.html

Slash/Mulch Systems: Velvetbean (Mucuna) Maize System

Description:
This page discusses velvetbean in slash/mulch systems, and gives its historical background in Central America. It has a few photographs of mucuna and maize intercrop.

Accessible from:
http://www.tropag-fieldtrip.cornell.edu/tradag/slashmulch.html

Soil Fertility Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: leveraging lasting solutions to a long-term problem

Description:
CIAT, ICRAF, and TSBF have published information on the problems regarding soil fertility, progress and achievements, as well as what to look forward to and issues surrounding funding.

Accessible from:
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/news/pdf/tsbf_bellagio.pdf

The role of legume fallows in intensified upland rice-based systems of West Africa

Description:
A paper on traditional upland rice-based cropping systems in West Africa. This paper has a french Résumé.

Accessible from:
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-31917-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

UC SAREP Cover Crop Resource Page

Description:
This UC SAREP Cover Crop Database includes over 5,000 items gleaned from more than 600 separate sources, including journal articles, conference proceedings, standard textbooks, unpublished data, and personal communications from researchers and farmers. The information in the database concerns the management and effects of more than 32 species of plants usable as cover crops. More than 400 different cover crop images are also available for viewing online.

Accessible from:
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/index.htm

Una Odisea de Descubrimiento: Principios de la Agricultura para el Trópico Húmedo (HTML versión)

Description:
Un breve articulo por Roland Bunch en el boletín "ECHO Notas de Desarrollo", Edición 58 Febrero 1998. Trata del uso de abonos verdes/cultivos de cobertura en Mesoamerica y su valor.

Accessible from:
http://www.echonet.org/tropicalag/ednissues/text_span/edn58st.html

Una Odisea de Descubrimiento: Principios de la Agricultura para el Trópico Húmedom -- PDF versión

Description:
Un breve articulo de fondo por Roland Bunch en el boletín "ECHO Notas de Desarrollo", Edición 58 Febrero 1998. Trata del uso de abonos verdes/cultivos de cobertura en Mesoamerica y su valor.

Accessible from:
http://www.echonet.org/tropicalag/ednissues/pdf/span/edn58spa.pdf


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