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Ecofarming

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Title Ecofarming
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description Ecofarming in agricultural development' contributes to the discussion of the principles and methods of sustainable agricultural development, and its importance for the development of smallholder agriculture in the tropics.



It contains a definition of ecofarming (sustainable agriculture with low levels of external inputs), an outline of the major ecofarming techniques from the point of new of formal agricultural science, the major results of a GTZ survey of ecofarming development activities, and a commentary on the state-of-theart of ecofarming development within technical cooperation



The book takes a close look at indigenous agricultural knowledge and ecofarming practices in the tropics, and the possibilihes of collaboration between local farmers and agricultural scientists in developing siteappropriate techniques of sustainable agriculture. This leads on to a considerahon of the implicahons of this approach for project and advisory work, professional training, research emphases, and the planning and organization of technical cooperahon.



Kotchi Johannes, Ann Waters-Bayer, Reinhard Adelhelm, Ulrich Hoesle, 1989 'Ecofarming in agricultural development', 132pp.

ISBN 3 8236 1163 1. Edited and published by GTZ

(Deutches Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit)



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Kotchi Johannes, Ann Waters-Bayer, Reinhard Adelhelm, Ulrich Hoesle, 1989 'Ecofarming in agricultural development', 132pp.
ISBN 3 8236 1163 1. Edited and published by GTZ
(Deutches Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit)

Available from:

GT
 
Date 2014-10-08T13:15:59Z
2014-10-08T13:15:59Z
1989
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1989. Ecofarming. Spore 22. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45114
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore, Spore 22
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore