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Soil management and smallholder development in the Pacific Islands

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Title Soil management and smallholder development in the Pacific Islands
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description In September last year, 75 representatives of the Pacific Islands met in Honiara, Solomon Islands, for an International Workshop on Soil Management and Smallholder Development in the Pacific Islands. The Proceedings of this Workshop have now been published by The International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM), as the eighth in their series of Proceedings.



The Workshop was called to consider the problems of providing food for the increasing population of the larger Pacific Islands. Many of these islands have high, steeply sloping agricultural land which easiIy falls prey to loss of fertility if overworked, and to severe erosion in heavy tropical rainstorms. Many of the smallholders cannot afford to spend money on expensive farming techniques which might help conserve the soil.



The current situation of these farmers and their lands is reviewed in the opening section of this book. Subsequent sections consider fertilizers, organic matterand nutrients, the environment and soil management and sociology and traditional knowledge.



Case studies concentrate on tree growth on degraded soils at Barora, Solomon Islands, and the composition of Fijiian soils. The key resolution of the Workshop was a proposal to establish a regional network to overcome the constraints of sloping land to sustainable agricultural production in the Pacific. This network will be called PACIFICLAND (Management of Sloping Land for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in the Pacific) and IBSRAM will play a key role in coordinating the work of its members.



'Soil Management and Smallholder Development in the Pacific Islands - Pacificland,

IBSRAM 1989

ISBN 974 7613 20 4



Available from:



IBSRAM

PO Box 9-109

Bangkhen

Bangkok 10900

THAILAND
'Soil Management and Smallholder Development in the Pacific Islands - Pacificland,
IBSRAM 1989
ISBN 974 7613 20 4

Available from:

IBSRAM
PO Box 9-109
Bangkhen
Bangkok 10900
THAILAND
 
Date 1989
2014-10-08T13:15:59Z
2014-10-08T13:15:59Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1989. Soil management and smallholder development in the Pacific Islands . Spore 22. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45121
http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta22e/
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore