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Let farmers judge : experiences in assessing the sustainability of agriculture / edited by Wim Hiemstra, Coen Reijntjes and Erik van der Werf.

Title: Let farmers judge : experiences in assessing the sustainability of agriculture / edited by Wim Hiemstra, Coen Reijntjes and Erik van der Werf.
Publication: London, U.K. : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1992.

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vii, 208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Contributed articles.

Series Statement

ILEIA readings in sustainable agriculture

Uniform Title

ILEIA readings in sustainable agriculture

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]).

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Contents

Pt. I. Measuring Sustainability. Measuring sustainability: issues and alternatives / Larry Harrington -- Pt. II. What Criteria to Use? The costs of change in plant protection / J.C. Zodoks -- Lessons from the Mantaro Valley Project, Peru / Douglas Horton -- Soil erosion? That's not how we see the problem! / Christine Pahlman -- On-farm research and household economics / Allan Low -- Pt. III. Aspects of Economic Assessment. Soil mining: an unseen contributor to farm income in southern Mali / Floris van der Pol -- Labour cost: a critical element in soil conservation / Michael Stocking and Nick Abel -- Sustainability issues with intercrops / Charles Francis -- Crop yields and the small-scale family farm economy: An example from the central Andes / Pierre Morlon -- Farmers' assessment of ecological cropping techniques / Anne Floquet -- Pt. IV. Comparing Farming Systems. Low-imput cropping for acid soils of the humid tropics / Pedro Sanchez and José Benites -- Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: neglected knowledge of native people / SusannaHecht -- High and stable crop yields: The Bontoc rice terraces / Hilario Padilla -- The sloping agricultural land technology experience / J. Palmer -- Benefits of diversity: organic coffee growing in Mexico / Boudewijn van Elzakker, Rob Witte and Jan-Diek van Mansvelt -- Can ecological agriculture meet the Indian farmer's needs? / Erik van der Werf -- An economic assessment of rice-fish culture in the Philippines / M.P. Bimbao, A.V. Cruz and I.R. Smith -- A user perspective on rice-fish culture in the Philippines / Castillano dela Cruz, Clive Lightfoot and R.C. Sevilleja.

ISBN

1853391492

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^^^99939619^

OCLC

28681569

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