agriculture
SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) as a regional centre for agriculture research and development initiated series of regional studies and consultations on emerging issues impeding agricultural development. The efforts have resulted in publication of 16 manuscripts which are of relevance to agricultural researchers, extensioninst, policy makers and farmers as well.
The SAC has uploaded the...
By: Jennifer Phelps
Mountainous ecosystems are particularly sensitive to the effects of climate change. Rising temperatures in mountainous climates, the melting of glaciers and early disappearance of winter snowfall during the spring, are often regarded as significant and ominous indicators of dramatic changes which are likely to play an important role in our future world....
The CIALCA Consortium and the CGIAR Consortium Research Programme (CRP) on the Humid Tropics have the pleasure of announcing an international conference on the 'Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of sub-Saharan Africa', to be convened in Kigali, Rwanda from 24-27 October 2011.
The conference aims to take stock of the...
Project. Strengthening mountain populations’ livelihoods with improved policies for sustainable agriculture and rural development
Ganesh Himal is a range of mountains to the northwest of Kathmandu, reaching an altitude of 7,402 m. The paper describes some of the many features of the physical (abiotique) sphere (e.g. exposure, topography, climatology etc.), the biological (biotique) sphere (i.e. flora and fauna) and the cultural (anthropique) sphere of the region, and the interrelationships between them.
In order to determine the problems of the small farmers (owning less than 1.5 hectares in the Terai and 0.5 hectares in the Hills), HMG Nepal sponsored in cooperation with FAO/UNDP a workshop on "Development Support for Small Farmers" in January 1974. There were two workshops, both focusing on the problems of small farmers in a specified area.
This multi-disciplinary and multi-level...
This case study of small farmers made in Naktajhijh village panchayat near the selected FAO project village Sakhwa, is to determine the attitude and reactions of small owner operators, share croppers and landless agricultural labourers towards the rural institutions. It deals mainly with six institutions and their organisational set-up, their mode of operations and interaction with the...
This article introduces the topic of decision-making among the farming families. In the first section, the general idea of people's participation in agricultural development is touched upon. The second section briefly describes the geographical, social and economic context in which decisions are made by farming families in the area of Palpa district selected for study. In the third section, an...
A successful system of animal husbandry is the critical element in maintaining a successful trading system in an area with poor transportation, such as the Himalayas. Although the author has argued elsewhere that access to pack animals and plentiful pasture land gave the Thakalis an advantage over neighbouring groups in establishing themselves as the major trading group in central Nepal, his...
This study was conducted in collaboration with HarvestChoice (IFPRI) and evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and west Africa, describing cumulative economic and poverty-reduction benefits to farmers and consumers in those...
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