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From 'no-win' to 'win-win' - managing the tradeoffs between forages as feeds or for soil improvement

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Title From 'no-win' to 'win-win' - managing the tradeoffs between forages as feeds or for soil improvement
 
Creator International Livestock Research Institute
 
Description Video interview with Michael Peters (CIAT).
Speaking at the December 2009 SLP meeting in Addis Ababa, Michael Peters (CIAT), introduces a project in Nicaragua to study tradeoffs between using specific forage plants either as feeds for animals or for soil improvement and soil fertility maintenance. The project explores three issues: feed for cows, soil fertility, and longer term sustainability. The aim of the research is for the farmer to go from a "no-win to a win-win situation." Peters emphasizes that the farmers themselves are aware of the tradeoffs and will sometimes aim for a production effect (for cattle), and at other times for an environmental effect (on their soils). One interesting dimension is that "'we as researchers have to caution sometimes the farmers' not to be too enthusiastic" about the new technology they co-created.
CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme
 
Date 2009-12-29T17:09:20Z
2009-12-29T17:09:20Z
2009-12-02
 
Type Video
 
Identifier ILRI. 2009. From 'no-win' to 'win-win' - managing the tradeoffs between forages as feeds or for soil improvement. Video interview with Michael Peters. ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/283
 
Language en
 
Publisher ILRI