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Organic agriculture is practiced in 172 countries, and 43.7 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by approximately 2.3 million farmers. The global sales of organic food and drink reached 80 billion US dollars in 2014.
The 17th edition of The World of Organic Agriculture, published by the Research Institute...
Book
2016
The current challenges to agriculture posed by food insecurity and climate change are serious. There is a paradox of increased food production and growing hunger in the world. The global food production system is broken as we are destroying the very base of agriculture with unsustainable practices. Conventional agriculture has...
Book
2015
Ce guide, en français et en wolof, capitalise les pratiques agricoles teste es et valide es avec les exploitants dans le cadre du projet REFSA. Loin d’e tre exhaustif, il aborde essentiellement les techniques de maraî chage et ne se veut pas un recueil scientifique.
Guidelines
2015
Agroecology is the application of ecological principles to the interactions between human beings and their environment, as well as to their consequences, with the goal of minimising the negative effects of certain human activities. It aims at protecting the environment, ensuring the sustainable renewal of the natural resources (water, soil,...
Angola - Brazil - Cambodia - Congo - Gabon - Haiti - India - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Madagascar - Mauritania - Morocco - Niger - Sao Tome and Principe - Senegal - Sri Lanka
Guidelines
2010
Lemongrass, citronella, cinnamon, thyme, and so on... could these plants whose smell repels insects be used to protect horticultural crops? This is the question some researchers from CIRAD asked when looking into the repellent compounds in the extracts and essential oils of several such plants. Once identified and characterized, these...
Article
2015
Agroecology is the application of ecological concepts and methodological design for long-term enhancement and management of soil fertility and agriculture productivity. It provides a strategy to increase diversified agro-ecosystem. So it is benefiting the effect of the incorporation of plant and animal biodiversity, nutrient recycling; biomass creation and growth through...
India
Article
2015
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